Re: [Xen-users] New to xen

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 04:05:22PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> 
> If you mean the console you connect to using "xm console", hvm console
> can support it just fine. It's treated as a serial port if you have
> this entry on domU config file :
> 
> serial='pty'
> 
> > I've seen documentation that says you have to add console
> > output to your kernel boot arguments... but what sort of serial
> > console is that? Is it a real serial console or a virtualised one???
> 
> I assume you're talking about HVM domUs? The setup process on domU
> side is similar as setting up real machines to use serial port as
> output. This is what I used on HVM opensuse domU's grub.conf:
> 
> #================================================
> serial --unit=0 --speed=9600
> terminal --timeout=5 serial console
> 
> title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.29-0.1
>     root (hd0,1)
>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.29-0.1-default root=LABEL=ROOT
> resume=LABEL=SWAP splash=silent showopts console=tty1 console=ttyS0
>     initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.29-0.1-default
> #================================================
> 
> I'm not sure whether the "console=tty1" part is correct, but at least
> the serial console works fine, and I can access it from dom0 using "xm
> console". And don't forget to edit /etc/inittab (or equivalent) to
> spawn login screen on ttyS0 or console.
> 

I just added an entry about this to:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems

-- Pasi


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