Package:
cloud.debian.orgSeverity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Debian 9 cloud images do not boot if a KVM VM does not have a video device
(OpenStack creates such VMs if remote console is not configured in nova-compute):
qemu-system-x86_64 consumes 100% CPU and the VM is not booted.
The fix is to uncomment "GRUB_TERMINAL=console" in /etc/default/grub and run "update-grub"
Note that Ubuntu cloud images have the following configuration in /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_TERMINAL="serial console"
GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --speed=115200"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'xenial-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)