CentOS Virtualization

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Re: CentOS Virtualization

Post by TrevorH » 2018/07/17 23:07:22

No, it's more likely the guest isn't set up to use that console. Do you have ssh access to the guest? If so then check to see if it has console=ttyS0 as part of its kernel command line in /proc/cmdline and if not, you could try adding it via the grub.cfg/conf file for the guest version.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Re: CentOS Virtualization

Post by jough » 2018/07/18 21:34:59

So I can access this VM from putty now. Now I just need to dump the mysql data from the database running on it.

Thanks for the help!

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Re: CentOS Virtualization

Post by MartinR » 2018/07/19 10:44:24

Thanks Trevor, that sorted out my VMs.

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Re: CentOS Virtualization

Post by jough » 2018/08/09 17:07:22

So i am back again and need more assistance on this. I have made a mistake by removing access via SSH to this VM and have no way to access it. Can anyone assist in telling me how i can re-enable SSH from the VM on the host machine? To be more specific, it had a pubkey that was used and I needed to remove it so I could run this Linux VM through VMware converter. I added PubkeyAuthentication no to /etc/ssh/sshd_config and now I am unable to access it at all. So now I am back to this:

# virsh console <myhost>7
Connected to domain <myhost>7
Escape character is ^]

and I need to get onto that VM so i can remove the PubkeyAuthentication no line from the sshd_config

#struggling

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Re: CentOS Virtualization

Post by cup » 2018/09/06 19:34:33

You do know that you can run both VMWare and Virtual Box on Linux.

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Re: CentOS Virtualization

Post by TrevorH » 2018/09/06 19:45:55

But kvm and libvirt are what we ship as part of CentOS.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
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Re: CentOS Virtualization

Post by aks » 2018/09/07 20:14:39

If you can access the "real" console, you can define the init to be a shell (init=/bin/bash for example)..... it depends.

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