Re: [Xen-API] XCP Feature propose - send/receive OS information using introspection

[Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 12:02 -0200, Marco Sinhoreli wrote:
> Nice idea to have multiple console support. Is it supported in xen for
> paravirt and HVM?
> 

It already done by Stefano on it pvhvm branch (currently it merges to
2.6.37 linux kernel tree). After that all guest daemons can read/write
to/from serial port like spice vdagent in qemu/kvm.


> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 17:00 -0200, Marco Sinhoreli wrote:
> >> Hi Dave:
> >>
> >> In our case, we need to control if the user requesting a guest remote
> >> console will have the xvc0 without a unix user connected. I think to
> >> use the xen introspection mechanism and a daemon in-guest to
> >> communicate if the console is locked or free. Basically, in our system
> >> using the xenapi, we can create a method to request that and receive
> >> this information. More important is, maintain this 3rd part open to
> >> cloud providers create themselves control systems.
> >>
> >> Any suggestion?
> >
> > I like qemu/kvm based solution like virtio-serial. And Stefano provide
> > multiply console support - i think this very interesting feature to
> > write domU daemon that provides info. Some other solution - XenAccess.
> > But it more complicated and i don't know much more about it.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 


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Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx>
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