Re: [Xen-users] VNC console access in paravirtualized domUs

["Ray Barnes" <tical.net@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:26 AM, jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday June 05 2008 04:38:05 am Ray Barnes wrote:
>> Hi all.  In my CentOS 5.1 domUs, I add the following to the config file:
>>
>> vfb = [ 'type=vnc,vnclisten=0.0.0.0,vncdisplay=1,vncpasswd=somepass' ]
>>
>> at which point console output will default to vnc (assuming I remove
>> the "console=xvc0" argument from the kernel line in grub).  To enable
>> interactive logon I'd just add another line into /etc/inittab for the
>> vnc console.  On Debian Etch (2.6.18-4-xen-686) I'm trying to
>> accomplish the same thing but without any success.  When I launch the
>> domU and hit the VNC server, it simply says "parallel0 console" but
>> does not output anything else.  I've tried poking around in /dev and
>> it does not appear that the vfb gets a separate device as it would
>> under CentOS.  Google is also not very helpful in this regard, the
>> only thing remotely relevant (which doesn't solve my problem) is
>> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2008-04/msg00686.html.
>>  dom0 is Cent 5.1 with Xen 3.2.1 compiled from source.
>
> Did you read all of that thread?:

Sure, did you read mine?  I believe I said something about "without
any success".

>
>> Try type <ctrl>-<alt>-1. You accidentally have gotten into the monitor mode
>> of qemu-dm.

It didn't do anything; console still says "parallel0 console".  It
doesn't spawn a login prompt and it doesn't echo anything I type.

-Ray

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