---
title: 'How to get virsh serial console working with alpine'
url: 'https://grav.munn.me/my-blog/how-to-get-virsh-serial-console-working-with-alpine'
markdown: 'https://grav.munn.me/my-blog/how-to-get-virsh-serial-console-working-with-alpine.md'
date: '2025-08-13'
description: '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 reb…'
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I was having some trouble today with getting my virsh console working with my new vm. I had forgotten that its necessary to uncomment

```sh
# 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

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