Did you ever manage to start an interactive getty on the console? about vz HOT 5 CLOSED

I can interact with the VM terminal after starting it with example/virtualization if this is what you are asking?

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Hmm. Then I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.

I'm running it not with a standard distro, but with a composed minimal one. It's got a small script to read cmdline and determine where to start getty. Yet despite starting several - including to /dev/hvc0 - nothing is interacting.

Do you know what device the actual console is using?

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Actually, I tried your approach. I just built from example/ dir, pulled down the Ubuntu 20.04.3 iso, extracted the vmlinuz and initrd, set them to env vars, and tried to boot it. It just sits there.

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You must gunzip the kernel or it will just sit there indeed. (forgot if this step is m1 specific, or is also needed on x86_64)

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It is an arm64 issue. For some reason, arm64 kernels are gzipped (which qemu and others can handle, but macOS VF cannot 🤷‍♂️ ) while x86_64 use built-in compression.

It isn't that, I definitely was using an extracted kernel.

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