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Re: [Xen-devel] Unable to switch input to xen from serial console

To: Sandesh <sandesh.ahiremath@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Unable to switch input to xen from serial console
From: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:03:57 +0100
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At 18:42 +0530 on 02 Jul (1215024124), Sandesh wrote:
>   When i do 'xm dmesg' the last statement says  "*** Serial input ->
> DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a' three times to switch input to Xen)" (i have no clue
> what's that supposed to mean??) But when i press ctrl-a three times at
> the serial console, nothing happens. 
>   Iam using minicom to connect to the serial port of xen machine.

Minicom uses Ctrl-A as an escape character.  You'll need to press Ctrl-A
_six_ times to cause Minicom to actually send it three times.

Cheers,

Tim.

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Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, Citrix Systems (R&D) Ltd.
[Company #02300071, SL9 0DZ, UK.]

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