Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH,RFC]: Introduce libxl_domain_create()

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 11:33 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH,RFC]: Introduce 
> libxl_domain_create()"):
> > My guess is that there is some reason you can't create the console for
> > an HVM guest before libxl_domain_create but I don't specifically know
> > why, perhaps qemu needs to be running?
> 
> Yes.  The primary console for an HVM guest is not a PV console, but
> the guest's emulated serial port provided by qemu.  So to connect to
> it you need qemu running.

Why is that?

In the PV case the xenconsole client is quite happy to sit and wait (on
a xenstore watch) for the console entries to be created in xenstore. Why
can the qemu case not do the same?

Ian.


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