Re: [Wg-test-framework] Status update 3-8-2015

[Don Koch <dkoch@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 13:47:37 +0000
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Don Koch writes ("Re: Status update 3-8-2015"):
> > On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 12:15:42 +0000
> > > Thanks.  Don K, should I be playing about with this yet or do you want
> > > to investigate ?
> > 
> > Let me poke at it, first.
> 
> OK, good.  Let me know how you get on.  (You seem to have fallen off
> #xendevel - do you need reinviting?)

No. I had checked out so I could log in at home and then back again.

> > > What about the USB connection for the cubietruck serial ?  Don and you
> > > were going to see what the USB topology was like on
> > > newcastle/gateshead.
> > 
> > It would appear that the cubietruck is the only thing that landed on USB2.
> > Gateshead and newcastle match on the pci/usb port layout. I'll go ahead
> > and set up the PCI pass-through for the second USB device to the serial*
> > VMs.
> > 
> > FWIW, the virtual keyboard/mouse is the only thing on USB 1.
> 
> Does that mean that if we passthrough the USB 2, attempts to plug a
> keyboard into newcastle will produce a usb keyboard on serial0 (which
> doesn't have a VGA console) instead ?
> 
> I guess that's tolerable although annoying.  (In the future Xen will
> do USB passthrough...)

Unless we plug it into a USB controller 1 port. (I assume we still have those.)

> If you need to reboot newcastle or gateshead please let me know.

Will do. I'll probably test the serial* VM config on gateshead, first, since
it's not in active use (right?).

> Also, I plan to configure our serial concentrator software "sympathy"
> for newcastle/gatesheads's consoles.  So when I do that I'll want to
> negotiate with you.

OK.

-d

> Thanks,
> Ian.
> 

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