Re: [Xen-users] Connect to Xen console

[Jason Rexilius <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried for days to get console working for HVM guests and never could.
I had to end up settling on VNC..



Paras pradhan wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Guillaume <guillaume.chardin@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 
>> hi,
>>
>> I'm new on this list and i need help from experienced users to give
>> andswer for some questions.
>>
>> I sen up a dom0 (debian) and would like it to be very minimalist, just
>> xen tools, some gnu utils and other usefull utilities. This dom0 will
>> be used to virtualize many hvm OS like windows and some other *nix
>> paravirtualized. Till there are no problem to view/connect to console
>> of paravirt OSes, I have some problem  to view console of hvm guests.
>> I was able to connect only to these guest with vnc. If I use `xm
>> console <domID>`it's only diplay "connected to <domID> console" (or
>> something like that), but no "graphics".
>>
>> I don't know if it's possible, but is there a way to display the guest
>> console, directly on dom0 console by using `xm console <domID>`
>> WITHOUT installing X on dom0.
>>
>> Maybe problem come from my config file. I try some tricks with
>> sdl=0/1, stdvga=1 etc.... But nothing seem to works execpt using VNC.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>>
>> -----------------------
>> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/boot/hvmloader"
>> builder='hvm'
>> memory = 128
>> shadow_memory = 8
>> name = "winXP"
>> vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr1' ]
>> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sda5,ioemu:hda,w', 'phy:/dev/cdrom,hdc:cdrom,r' ]
>> boot="dac"
>> #-GRAPHICS-
>> # enable SDL library for graphics, default = 0
>> sdl=1
>> # enable VNC library for graphics, default = 1
>> vnc=1
>> vnclisten="192.168.0.22"
>> #vncconsole=1
>> stdvga=0
>> serial='pty'
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Guillaume
>>
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> 
> 
> This is what I did:
> 
> 
> In guest:
> 
> * Edit menu.lst file and append console=ttyS0 console=tty0
> 
> * In /etc/inittab add:
> 
>     "co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 9600 vt100-nav"
> 
> In host:
> 
> * In xen config file make sure you have serial="pty"
> 
> 
> 
> Paras.
> 
> 
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