Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 13:58:31 +0000 (UTC) From: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r301732 - head/release/tools Message-ID: <201606091358.u59DwV0X087622@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: cperciva Date: Thu Jun 9 13:58:31 2016 New Revision: 301732 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/301732 Log: Switch from console="comconsole" to boot_multicons="YES" in EC2. Amazon recently introduced an API for capturing screenshots of an emulated VGA device; this commit makes that (somewhat) useful. MFC after: 3 weeks Modified: head/release/tools/ec2.conf Modified: head/release/tools/ec2.conf ============================================================================== --- head/release/tools/ec2.conf Thu Jun 9 13:42:18 2016 (r301731) +++ head/release/tools/ec2.conf Thu Jun 9 13:58:31 2016 (r301732) @@ -62,8 +62,10 @@ vm_extra_pre_umount() { echo 'autoboot_delay="-1"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf echo 'beastie_disable="YES"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf - # The EC2 console is an emulated serial port. - echo 'console="comconsole"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf + # EC2 has two consoles: An emulated serial port ("system log"), + # which has been present since 2006; and a VGA console ("instance + # screenshot") which was introduced in 2016. + echo 'boot_multicons="YES"' >> ${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.conf # Some older EC2 hardware used a version of Xen with a bug in its # emulated serial port. It is not clear if EC2 still has any such
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