We're never going to use virtio-console since, although it is faster, it's not available during early boot, and that is more important for debugging. --- src/launch-direct.c | 12 +----------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/launch-direct.c b/src/launch-direct.c index a81d4b3..e8450e1 100644 --- a/src/launch-direct.c +++ b/src/launch-direct.c @@ -574,19 +574,9 @@ launch_direct (guestfs_h *g, void *datav, const char *arg) ADD_CMDLINE ("-device"); ADD_CMDLINE (VIRTIO_SERIAL); -#if 0 - /* Use virtio-console (a variant form of virtio-serial) for the - * guest's serial console. - */ - ADD_CMDLINE ("-chardev"); - ADD_CMDLINE ("stdio,id=console"); - ADD_CMDLINE ("-device"); - ADD_CMDLINE ("virtconsole,chardev=console,name=org.libguestfs.console.0"); -#else - /* When the above works ... until then: */ + /* Create the serial console. */ ADD_CMDLINE ("-serial"); ADD_CMDLINE ("stdio"); -#endif if (qemu_supports_device (g, data, "Serial Graphics Adapter")) { /* Use sgabios instead of vgabios. This means we'll see BIOS -- 2.7.4