I was trying to setup a quick (…foreshadowing) VM to run a VPN on a host I use for a few VMs with KVM. But getting it setup was surprisingly painful until I tried the “nano” install image. As the host is headless, I wanted a disk image I could import on the host with Opnsense already installed to avoid trying to redirect VNC over the network, or something similarly daft. A serial terminal was ideal (and how virt-install and the rest of libvirt works nicest). Alas, I couldn’t get a ser...
