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Switch from console="comconsole" to boot_multicons="YES" in EC2.

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Amazon recently introduced an API for capturing screenshots of an
emulated VGA device; this commit makes that (somewhat) useful.

MFC after:	3 weeks
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cperciva 2016-06-09 13:58:31 +00:00
parent e5d79957a9
commit 1db263cf30
1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -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