Re: [Xen-devel] system lockup

[Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Could you hook up a serial console to the machine? If you start
> > Xen with the appropriate (e.g. 'com1=115200,8n1') option there's
> > a fair chance that either Xen or more likely, domain 0, will
> > write some sort of crash message to the console when the machine
> > locks. A 'debug=y' build of Xen might help.
> 
> Out of curiosity, is there any way to get the Xen console/crash dumps on
> the console (as opposed to serial)?

You can see Xen's boot messages with 'xen_dmesg.py'.

If you're in a graphics screen mode I'm afraid there's no way to
get crash messages out of either dom0 or Xen.

If you're in a text mode, you should see crash dumps from dom0.

You are much better off with a serial line, though.

Ian


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