I know there are a lot of ways to do this, but I just wanted to note what works for me to catch early boot Oopses in the kernel. In virt-manager, I set up a serial device, as a “pty”. After the VM boots, I pause in Grub, and check the VM details for the serial port (it’ll show something like “/dev/pts/13”). In another terminal, “sudo cat /dev/pts/13”, and I boot the kernel with “console=ttyS0”. When the Oops happens, I get it in the terminal instead of having it scroll off the VM’s screen.
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