Re: [Xen-users] Devices not available in domain

[Gisbert Amm <gia@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

M.A. Williamson wrote:
> > I got my domain up and running, receive an IP via DHCP, can login as 
> > root and it works so far.
> > However, when I try to login as a non-privileged user, I get
> >
> > bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
>
> That's very odd!  Xen shouldn't really make a difference here.
>
> Can you look at the output of "mount" and check whether your root 
> filesystem is mounted readonly for some reason. Could you post it to the 
> list, please?
# mount
/dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)

> Can you post the disk lines out of your config file?
disk = ['file:/root/xeninstanzen/lxgia/lxgia.img,hda6,w']
root = "/dev/hda6 rw"

> > And though the domain claims to be booting into runlevel 5, no 
> > X-Server is started. When I try to start X manually, I get this error 
> > message:
> > Fatal server error:
> > xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)
> >
> > For me it looks as if I had to do something about the mode the 
> > filesystem is mounted. Is that right? Or is there another reason why 
> > some devices are not available?
>
> You can't just start an Xserver in a Xen domain since there isn't (yet) 
> a virtual framebuffer device. The recommended way of doing this is to 
> use remote X or VNC, as you would for graphical access to a physically 
> separate machine.
I see.

Thank you.

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