Vnx-console-mgmt

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VNX Console Management

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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
    

    For example:

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Scenario "tutorial_ubuntu" started
    
     VM_NAME     | TYPE                | CONSOLE ACCESS COMMAND
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     h1          | libvirt-kvm-linux   | con0:  'virt-viewer -c qemu:///system h1' or 'vncviewer :0'
                 |                     | con1:  'virsh -c qemu:///system console h1' or 'screen /dev/pts/0'
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     h2          | libvirt-kvm-linux   | con0:  'virt-viewer -c qemu:///system h2' or 'vncviewer :6'
                 |                     | con1:  'virsh -c qemu:///system console h2' or 'screen /dev/pts/12'
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     r1          | libvirt-kvm-linux   | con0:  'virt-viewer -c qemu:///system r1' or 'vncviewer :7'
                 |                     | con1:  'virsh -c qemu:///system console r1' or 'screen /dev/pts/13'
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     r2          | libvirt-kvm-linux   | con0:  'virt-viewer -c qemu:///system r2' or 'vncviewer :8'
                 |                     | con1:  'virsh -c qemu:///system console r2' or 'screen /dev/pts/14'
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     h3          | libvirt-kvm-linux   | con0:  'virt-viewer -c qemu:///system h3' or 'vncviewer :9'
                 |                     | con1:  'virsh -c qemu:///system console h3' or 'screen /dev/pts/22'
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     h4          | libvirt-kvm-linux   | con0:  'virt-viewer -c qemu:///system h4' or 'vncviewer :10'
                 |                     | con1:  'virsh -c qemu:///system console h4' or 'screen /dev/pts/23'
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
  • Open all the consoles enabled in an scenario:
  • sudo vnx -f scenario.xml -v --console
    

    only the consoles with the 'display' attribute set to 'yes' are opened.

  • Open the first console of every virtual machine of an scenario:
  • 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.

  • Open the first console of a specific virtual machine of an scenario:
  • sudo vnx -f scenario.xml -v --console --cid con1 -M h1
    

Opening Consoles Manually

For libvirt virtual machines, you can use libvirt "virsh list" commands to get the names and identifiers of each virtual machine:

  1. sudo virsh list
Id Nombre               Estado

31 ubuntu-gui           running

And start the consoles manually using "virt-viewer" command for the graphical consoles and "virsh console" for the textual ones.

For example:

# virt-viewer 31 &                       # To open the graphical console
# xterm -e "sudo virsh console 31" &     # To open the text console

Beware that only one textual console can be used at a time. If you open a second one, you will experiment a strange behaviour as both consoles will compete for the pts terminal. On the contrary, you can open several graphical console simultaneously.