Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: default to xenconsoled for pv guests, even if qemu is running

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 11:32 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH] libxl: default to xenconsoled for pv guests, 
> even if qemu is running"):
> > libxl: default to xenconsoled for pv guests, even if qemu is running.
> > 
> > Currently we prefer to use qemu for the disk backend if we are starting qemu
> > anyway (e.g. to service a disk).
> ...
> > I'm not sure if this is 4.2 material, perhaps too late to be making this 
> > sort
> > of change?
> 
> I think we can regard this as a bugfix, or make an exception.
> 
> But: have you tested this ?  ISTR hearing that there was some
> difficulty getting a pv qemu not to try to provide the console.

I did run a PV guest with it and it seemed to be doing what I expected
(i.e. my guest logs showed up in /var/log/xen/console).

Ian.



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