KVM Virsh: Redirect FreeBSD Console To A Serial Port

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To redirect the console of a FreeBSD virtual machine running on KVM to a serial port, you can use the virsh tool. The steps are as follows:

  1. Create a serial port in your virtual machine configuration file:
<serial type='pty'>
<target port='0'/>
</serial>
  1. Define the virtual machine with the updated configuration file:
virsh define /path/to/your/vm.xml
  1. Start the virtual machine:
virsh start your_vm_name
  1. Connect to the serial port of the virtual machine:
virsh console your_vm_name

This will redirect the FreeBSD virtual machine’s console output to the serial port, which you can then access through the virsh console command. Note that you may need to configure your FreeBSD virtual machine to use a serial console in its boot loader configuration.

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