making bhyve 100% silent

Aryeh Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Fri Jun 28 06:19:00 UTC 2013


removing stdio makes a 10-CURRENT guest unbootable (it freezes
immediately after the boot menu)

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi Aryeh,
>
>
>> bhyve(8) seems to bypass the standard stdin/out/err and send it's
>> output directly to the TTY when handling guest console I/O.   I need
>> to make it so it is 100% silent (and/or send all it's output to a file
>> and accept no input at all).   How can I do this?
>
>
>  For now, edirect bhyveload's output to /dev/null, and remove the ",stdio"
> part of uart slot configuration.
>
>  e.g. change "-S 10,uart,stdio" to "-S 10,uart"
>
>  I should be doing some enhancements in this area in the near future that
> will make this a bit easier.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.


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