On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 05:12:04PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 19/10/07 16:51, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I don't know if I'm using SVGA console support. This is basically a 100%
> > clean checkout of xen-unstable.hg and I just did 'make' in the 'xen'
> > directory without changing any build config options, and I've not given any
> > special boot parameters to the HV. So if SVGA stuff is enabled by default,
> > then I'm using it.... Is there a grub boot option I can use to disable
> > it ?
>
> No it's not enabled by default. So the 10s delay is rather weird! Is this a
> property of any version of Xen on this machine (e.g., 3.1.0, 3.1.1)? Or is
> it a new property of recent xen-unstable?
3.1.0 works without any issue. The 3.1.1 rc's did too, though I've not
tested the final release. Will do some builds to try & find where it
came in...
I'm also going to update some other machines to xen-unstable
> > Unfortunately this box is one of the 'nice' new legacy free machines
> > and thus no serial :-(
>
> Oh dear. :-( For that kind of machine I tend to stick in a PCI serial card,
> work out its BIOS-assigned resources, and then manually specify the I/O
> ports and IRQ on the Xen command line. Working with no serial at all is way
> too painful.
Yes, its seriously painful.
Dan.
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