Re: [Astlinux-devel] Astlinux on Azure

[David K. <da...@ke...>]

So, I guess my question is why you need the serial console?  I have been
running astlinux in a VM for years and one of the benefits is not needing
to use the serial console.

David.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 3:27 PM Michael Knill <
mic...@ip...> wrote:

> Hi Group
>
> In my search to find a reliable cloud provider, I'm now going to be
> putting a number of Astlinux boxes in Azure. We have now fully documented
> the process so will get an article up once tested again.
> One thing we cant get going but did previously is the Serial Console. I
> changed the "Out-of-Band Console Access" as per the Linode article below
> but it still doesn't work e.g. it connects to the tty but no output.
> I am using the 1.3.10 VM image.
>
> Any ideas? Has something changed in 1.3.10?
>
> Regards
> Michael Knill
>
> On 16/4/20, 11:48 am, "Michael Knill" <mic...@ip...>
> wrote:
>
>     Yay serial console is now working.
>     Thanks for that. I figured it would be easy.
>
>     Regards
>     Michael Knill
>
>     On 16/4/20, 9:38 am, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lo...>
> wrote:
>
>         Hi Michael,
>
>         Great to hear !
>
>         If their serial setup is anything similar to Linode's
>
>         https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:hosted_guest_vm_linode
>
>         Search for "Out-of-Band Console Access"
>
>         Basically a simple edit of the /etc/inittab file.
>
>
>         > Also would you like me to write up an article for the build
> process?
>
>         Is it pretty straight-forward? sure, any helpful documentation is
> great.
>
>         Lonnie
>
>
>
>         > On Apr 15, 2020, at 6:25 PM, Michael Knill <
> mic...@ip...> wrote:
>         >
>         > Hi Guys
>         >
>         > I have put my office Astlinux system on Azure to test it out.
> Seems to be working fine. I will let it run for a week or so to see how it
> goes and report back.
>         >
>         > One annoying thing is that Azure is looking for a serial console
> but I have installed the vm board type. Is there any way I can set this up?
>         >
>         > Also would you like me to write up an article for the build
> process?
>         >
>         > Thanks
>         >
>         > Regards
>         > Michael Knill
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