stub: Prefer graphical console over virtio detection heuristic

With vmspawn --console=gui and similar one has the case where the VirtIO
PCI device is present for something else than the console and the logic
in sd-stub added console=hvc0 even though it didn't exist. This caused
tty0 to be empty during boot.
Always prefer the graphical console before a potential virtio console.
The virtio console is still preferred over a serial console and we can
get the same problem there, e.g., qemu-guest-agent is used causing the
PCI device but without a virtio console and instead a serial console is
used. This is not solved here.
This commit is contained in:
Kai Lüke
2026-07-09 10:54:52 +02:00
committed by Lennart Poettering
parent ce043cdfdb
commit 2f76050c5c
+12 -9
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@@ -547,14 +547,16 @@ static const char16_t *serial_console_arg(uint32_t index) {
/* If there's no console= in the command line yet, try to detect the appropriate console device.
*
* Detection order:
* 1. If exactly one VirtIO console PCI device exists -> console=hvc0
* 2. If there's graphical output (GOP) -> don't add console=, the kernel defaults are fine
* 1. If there's graphical output (GOP) -> don't add console=, the kernel defaults are fine
* 2. If exactly one VirtIO console PCI device exists -> console=hvc0
* 3. On x86, if exactly one serial console exists -> console=uart,io,<addr>
* 4. Otherwise -> don't add console=, let the user handle it
*
* VirtIO console takes priority since it's explicitly configured by the VMM. Graphics is
* checked before serial to avoid accidentally redirecting output away from a graphical
* console by adding a serial console= argument.
* Graphics is checked first to avoid redirecting output away from a graphical console.
* The VirtIO console takes priority over serial since it's explicitly configured by the VMM but detection
* by PCI ID also triggers for non-console ports, so its presence alone doesn't imply that a hvc0 console
* actually exists. For example, for qemu-guest-agent the PCI device is present but only a traditional
* serial console is used. In this case we wrongly prefer hvc0 for now.
*
* Serial console auto-detection is restricted to x86 where ACPI PNP0501 UIDs map to fixed
* I/O port addresses for 8250/16550 UARTs. On non-x86 (e.g. ARM), serial device indices are
@@ -571,14 +573,15 @@ void cmdline_append_console(char16_t **cmdline) {
return;
}
if (has_graphics_output()) {
log_debug("Graphical output available, not adding console= to kernel command line.");
return;
}
const char16_t *console_arg = NULL;
if (has_virtio_console_pci_device())
console_arg = u"console=hvc0";
else if (has_graphics_output()) {
log_debug("Graphical output available, not adding console= to kernel command line.");
return;
}
#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)
else {
uint32_t serial_index;