@Andrew Thank you very much for your reply. This helped a lot, and I was able to get serial access to VMs configured to use the serial port.

Hello,

I'd like to confirm whether a serial console (text console) is possible for HVM virtual machines?

I am completely blind, and often use a serial console for OS installation and troubleshooting, including boot loaders and kernel output before an OS is booted. The XOA-provided web console is not accessible to screen-reading software.

I've attempted to connect to a text console of an Ubuntu Linux VM using the xe console vm=ubuntu command, which reports: No text console available.

Some googling suggests that a serial console is not possible with HVM virtual machines, but I'd like to confirm this before moving away from xc-png.

Thank you for your help!