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release: enable serial console by default for VM images
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Authored by royger on Dec 17 2019, 11:11 AM.
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Summary

Enabling the serial console by default allows getting boot output
easier when running on virtualization platforms that have support for
a serial port. The video console is left enabled in multi console
mode, so environments without a serial console shouldn't notice any
change.

Note that the speed is hardcoded to 115200, all virtualization
platforms should support the highest possible speed, since it's using
an emulated serial port that's not tied to any specific hardware.

Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D

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release/tools/vmimage.subr
159

I do not think the comma is necessary. For consistency, I would prefer a space.

161

It might be worth adding '-h', too.