ubuntu-cpc:Vagrant Serial to Null (LP: #1874453)

Original fix proposed by Stanislav German-Evtushenko (giner)

CPC Ubuntu cloud images default to enabling a serial console connection
via the kernel commandline option `console=ttyS0`. Many clouds support
the serial connection, and utilize it for debugging purposes. Virtualbox
supports the serial connection as well. In Bionic and earlier images,
Vagrant boxes created a serial log file in the directory of the
Vagrantfile by default. However this is not standard behaviour for
Vagrant images, and so it was removed in Eoan onwards.

Starting in Eoan, there were reports of image booting slowdown (1874453
is a single example). After testing, it was determined that the serial
connection starting, without a device attached, was the cause of the
slow down. However, we did not want to revert to the old functionality
of creating a file. Much thanks to <giner> for providing the Ruby syntax
for sending to File::NULL.

This option will not create a local file, however, the default
Vagrantfile configuration is overwritable via a users Vagrantfile. The
original syntax for creating a file local to the users Vagrantfile has
been included as an example.

live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks.d/base/vagrant.binary

@@ -153,9 +153,17 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
   config.vm.base_mac = "${macaddr}"
 
   config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
-     vb.customize [ "modifyvm", :id, "--uart1", "0x3F8", "4" ]
-# Creating a console log file is not an expected behavior for vagrant boxes. LP #1777827
-#     vb.customize [ "modifyvm", :id, "--uartmode1", "file", File.join(Dir.pwd, "${prefix}-console.log") ]
+    vb.customize [ "modifyvm", :id, "--uart1", "0x3F8", "4" ]
+    # Create a NULL serial port to skip console logging by default
+    vb.customize [ "modifyvm", :id, "--uartmode1", "file", File::NULL ]
+    # If console logging is desired, uncomment this line and remove prior
+    # vb.customize [ "modifyvm", :id, "--uartmode1", "file", File.join(Dir.pwd, "${prefix}-console.log") ]
+    # Ubuntu cloud images, by default, enable console=ttyS0. This enables serial consoles to
+    # connect to the images. With the change related to LP #1777827, removing a serial
+    # file logger, Vagrant image boot times increased and now run greater than 5 minutes
+    # Creating a console log file is not an expected default behavior for vagrant boxes.
+    # As a workaround, we create a console connection to File:NULL. LP #1874453
+    # This is overrideable in user files to write to a local file
   end
 end
 EOF