echo "ttyS0" >> /etc/securetty vi /etc/default/grub # Add console=ttyS0 to the end of kernel line(s) "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX" grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg reboot #vi /etc/sysconfig/init # Edit ACTIVE_CONSOLES to look like: #ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6] /dev/ttyS0" # If on a live system, do the following #init q # After that, if on KVM virtual machine, it should be possible to do virsh console # and see the console output