General Information

You might not have access to a GUI, always learn the CLI methods too.

From GUI Desktop on the system running KVM

• Applications > System Tools > Virtual Machine Manager
• Double click on running virtual machine to open console

On the Virtual Machine

• Edit the grub default config file

  vim /etc/default/grub

• Append “console=ttyS0” to the end of “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX” variable

  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=centos/root rd.lvm.lv=centos/swap rhgb quiet console=ttyS0"

• Reboot the virtual machine

On the KVM system

• Connect to the virtual machine's console

  virsh console myserver1.example.com