Re: [Xen-users] XM console exit

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:35:02PM +0530, Jaya Dhanesh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a piece of software which will use pipes and sockets to
> communicate with the console. How do
> I make DomU to write to this socket instead of the default console
> o/p so that I can read this in my app and process them. Similary the
> DomU should read from the socket that my app will write to. VBox
> supports this and is this possible in xen?
> 
> What does the serial config option specify? Can I use this option to
> achieve mentioned above?
> 

I think you can just read from / write to the pts created by
xenconsoled, everything should work. I just tried "screen /dev/pts/1"
(pts/1 is a console for one of my DomU) and it worked.

You can grab the corresponding console device for a specific domain from
xenstore.


Wei.

> Thanks,
> Dhanesh.

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