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How to get virsh serial console working with alpine

I was having some trouble today with getting my virsh console working with my new vm. I had forgotten that its necessary to uncomment

# Put a getty on the serial port
ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100

The above line in order to get things working on alpine linux. Once you do that reboot and POOF working virsh console my.server