How to Switch from VNC to a Serial Console

Ensure that you have enabled the serial console on the cloud controller where the nova-serialproxy service is running before you enable the serial console on the compute node.

These steps are performed by default when you run the setup.sh script except for the value of the enabled keyword, which you must set manually.

1. Modify the [serial_console] stanza of the /etc/nova/nova.conf configuration file on each compute node.

   IP-address is the IP address of the cloud controller.

   [serial_console]
   serialproxy_host=IP-address
   serialproxy_port=6083
   enabled=true
   base_url=ws://IP-address:6083/
   listen=$my_ip
   proxyclient_address=$my_ip

2. Restart the nova-compute service.

   nova# svcadm restart nova-compute