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I'm running Ubuntu Server 16.04 guest in KVM (on a non-ubuntu host)

When it finishes booting, it displays a non-interactive screen with a couple of non-critical boot messages[1], and I must manually switch to an interactive tty to login (virt-manager interface: Send Key -> Ctrl+Alt+Fx). This is a little bit of a problem, particularly if I have a colleague who's unaware of the issue try and get access to the machine.

Is there a way to either force my display to an interactive tty after booting, or suppress the messages screen?

[1]: For search help, the non-critical messages are:

lvmetad is not active yet, using direct activation during sysinit
lvmetad is not active yet, using direct activation during sysinit
/dev/mapper/host-vg-root: clean 67347/887696 files, 668202/3544064 blocks
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(Of course, a week of banging my head, I ask the question and discover the answer 5 mins later...)

Thanks to @Kyle in this thread

I managed to resolve this for my machines by adjusting the grub configuration like so:

In /etc/default/grub, change:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset" Then add this line: GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT="console serial"

Run sudo update-grub and reboot for the changes to take effect.

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