On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 11:51:33PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
Currently I run my kvm VMs under screen
sounds like a PITA doing everything manually...but whatever works for you.
and just use screen -r to get the console.
I strongly recommend switching to tmux. I stuck with screen for many years, been using it since the early 90s, but finally made the switch about a year ago...finally got sick of screen's bugs, quirks, piss-poor unicode support, and effective abandonment as an actively-developed project. it took me about half an hour to configure it so that the transition was non-traumatic. after a few days, i wouldn't even consider switching back, any more than i'd switch back from mutt to elm. As I did with screen, I've mapped tmux's escape key to ^K. I rarely use that for anything else but I use ^A all the time -- ^A is move to start of line in bash/readline, an extremely stupid key for screen to hijack as its default control prefix. tmux's default of ^B is better, but I've got used to ^K over the years. Unlearning that would be too painful.
Virsh has some benefits, but so far it hasn't seemed worth the pain.
for just "virsh console", no not worth it. for everything else - virsh and libvirt are definitely worth it. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>