Re: [Xen-users] domU consoles

[Chris Peterman <petermcv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whoa thats cool! I'm gonna implement it on my machine tomorrow :D

On Thursday 15 June 2006 19:27, Itai Tavor wrote:
> > Paolo Supino wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >>  I have a couple of questions:
> >> 2. How do I setup a dom0/domU in order to get a tty login?
>
> Not sure if it's quite what you're after, but I use the following in /
> etc/inittab:
>
> 1:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/xm top > /dev/tty1
> 2:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/xm console dom1 > /dev/tty2 < /dev/tty2 2>&1
> 3:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/xm console dom2 > /dev/tty3 < /dev/tty3 2>&1
> 4:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/xm console dom3 > /dev/tty4 < /dev/tty4 2>&1
> 5:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/xm console dom4 > /dev/tty5 < /dev/tty5 2>&1
> 6:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/xm console dom5 > /dev/tty6 < /dev/tty6 2>&1
> 7:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/xm console dom6 > /dev/tty7 < /dev/tty7 2>&1
> 8:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/xm console dom7 > /dev/tty8 < /dev/tty8 2>&1
> 9:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty9
>
> This gives me 'xm top' on the main console, console access to my
> guests using ALT-F2..ALT-F8, and a host login prompt with ALT-F9.
>
> There's room for improvement... if a guest is down, the guest console
> spits out an endless stream "Domain xxx isn't running" - I'm thinking
> of wrapping the xm call in a script that will deal with that quietly.
>
> HTH, Itai
>
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~ Chris "Kyral" Peterman
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