Comment 20 for bug 880049

> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Cedric Schieli <email address hidden> wrote:
> > I found another workaround which do not involve patching : simply delete
> > /dev/console in the VE and replace it with a plain file.
>
> Doesn't work. VE will not boot if the file is a regular file...

I was able to work around this by replacing /dev/console with a symlink to /dev/null and rebooting, i.e.:
# rm /dev/console
# cd /dev
# ln -s null console
# reboot

This was on something the vendor is calling a "Virtuozzo" which I think might just be OpenVZ under the hood.