Vnx-console-mgmt
VNX Console Management
To be completed soon...
VNX Console Definition
Consoles available depending on type of virtual machine:
- libvirt virtual machines:
- con0: the graphical console
- con1: the textual console
- Dynamips:
- con1: the main console
- con2: aux console (only available for C7200 routers)
- Olive:
- con1: the textual console
<global> <vm_defaults> <console id="0" display="no"/> <console id="1" display="yes"/> </vm_defaults> </global> ... <vm name="h1" type="libvirt" subtype="kvm" os="linux"> ... <console id="0" display="yes"/> <console id="1" display="no"/> ... </vm> <vm name="h2" type="libvirt" subtype="kvm" os="linux"> </vm>
VNX Console Commands
Two commands are provided in VNX to manage virtual machine consoles: "--console", to open the consoles; and "--console-info" to show information about them.
Besides, two options are used to modify the behaviour of the commands: "--cid" to specify consoles identifiers (con0, con1, etc) and restrict the command to a specific console; and "-M" to specify a virtual machine or a list of virtual machines the command applies to.
- Show information about the consoles of an scenario:
sudo vnx -f scenario.xml -v --console-info
sudo vnx -f scenario.xml -v --console
only the consoles with the 'display' attribute set to 'yes' are opened.
sudo vnx -f scenario.xml -v --console --cid con1
When using the "--cid" option to identify a specific console, the consoles are opened independently of the value of the 'display' attribute.
sudo vnx -f scenario.xml -v --console --cid con1 -M h1