Re: [Xen-users] VNC console access in paravirtualized domUs

[jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday June 05 2008 04:38:05 am Ray Barnes wrote:
> Hi all.  In my CentOS 5.1 domUs, I add the following to the config file:
>
> vfb = [ 'type=vnc,vnclisten=0.0.0.0,vncdisplay=1,vncpasswd=somepass' ]
>
> at which point console output will default to vnc (assuming I remove
> the "console=xvc0" argument from the kernel line in grub).  To enable
> interactive logon I'd just add another line into /etc/inittab for the
> vnc console.  On Debian Etch (2.6.18-4-xen-686) I'm trying to
> accomplish the same thing but without any success.  When I launch the
> domU and hit the VNC server, it simply says "parallel0 console" but
> does not output anything else.  I've tried poking around in /dev and
> it does not appear that the vfb gets a separate device as it would
> under CentOS.  Google is also not very helpful in this regard, the
> only thing remotely relevant (which doesn't solve my problem) is
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2008-04/msg00686.html.
>  dom0 is Cent 5.1 with Xen 3.2.1 compiled from source.

Did you read all of that thread?:

> Try type <ctrl>-<alt>-1. You accidentally have gotten into the monitor mode 
> of qemu-dm.



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