svn commit: r277183 - projects/release-vmimage/release/tools

[Nathan Whitehorn]

Is this a good idea? Do we know why there is a problem with VMs? If it 
is necessary, shouldn't this be some kind of default in the kernel 
rather than a hack in the release scripts?
-Nathan

On 01/14/15 07:23, Glen Barber wrote:
> Author: gjb
> Date: Wed Jan 14 15:23:58 2015
> New Revision: 277183
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/277183
>
> Log:
>    Enable the textmode console by default for VM images,
>    since there is no way to tell if the environment will
>    be able to use the graphics-mode console.
>    
>    Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
>
> Modified:
>    projects/release-vmimage/release/tools/vmimage.subr
>
> Modified: projects/release-vmimage/release/tools/vmimage.subr
> ==============================================================================
> --- projects/release-vmimage/release/tools/vmimage.subr	Wed Jan 14 14:50:31 2015	(r277182)
> +++ projects/release-vmimage/release/tools/vmimage.subr	Wed Jan 14 15:23:58 2015	(r277183)
> @@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ vm_install_base() {
>   			>> ${DESTDIR}/etc/fstab
>   	fi
>   
> +	# Set hw.vga.textmode=1, with the assumption that the hypervisor
> +	# will not be capable of using the graphics console mode.
> +	echo '# Comment the next line to enable graphical console mode' \
> +		>> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
> +	echo 'hw.vga.textmode=1' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf
> +
>   	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/dev
>   	mount -t devfs devfs ${DESTDIR}/dev
>   	chroot ${DESTDIR} /usr/bin/newaliases
>