Fail to start Ostro XT in virtual machine unless /dev/ttyS2(COM3) is assigned

[hujiajie]

Ostro OS XT cannot start in Virtualbox (as well as QEMU). Kernel panic happens before chroot into the real rootfs from initramfs. To be more specific, it seems to be triggered by console I/O in https://github.com/ostroproject/ostro-os-xt/blob/master/meta-ostro-xt/recipes-xt/initrdscripts/initramfs-framework-installer/installer. I find that for some reason (why?) console=ttyS2 is passed to the kernel in https://github.com/ostroproject/ostro-os-xt/blob/master/meta-ostro-xt/conf/distro/ostro-xt.conf, so when I manually add COM3 (in VirtualBox, Settings->Serial Ports) to the virtual machine, then things go fine. Please help to fix this issue since it could provide better developer experience.

[mythi]

@hujiajie are you using the .ova image?

[hujiajie]

Yes.