[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen-users] Multiple serial ports in Windows HVM
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Multiple serial ports in Windows HVM > > On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 20:08 +0000, White, Edmund H wrote: > > I have just moved from Xen 4.3 to 4.4. With 4.3 I used the xm toolstack, and > I could define multiple serial ports in the config for my Windows domU like > so: > > > > serial = [ "tcp::4464,server,nowait", > > "file:/home/ed/logs/Tgt64bcom2.log" ] > > I had no idea xm would accept a list here. We should probably look at > extending libxl/xl to support that. Is that something you think you could take > a look at? > I have literally no idea where to start, but if you give me some pointers I'll take a look. > > However, the xl toolstack in 4.4 won't accept a list in the serial > > definition. If I > change it to: > > > > serial = "tcp::4464,server,nowait" > > serial = "file:/home/ed/logs/Tgt64bcom2.log" > > > > I end up with a single serial port connected to the file. > > Right, the second one has overwritten the first. > > > How can I get two serial ports, with the first connected to a socket and the > second connected to a file? > > Until someone implements support for lists of serial devices as a workaround > you can pass arbitrary arguments to the qemu device model using > device_model_args=["--a thing", "--b another"] > > It looks like the xm serial translated pretty directly into arguments to > -serial. > I had tried that without success before posting to the list. I tried again today and now have it working. The successful recipe is to define the first serial port with: serial = "tcp::4464,server,nowait" and the second with device_model_args = [ "-serial", "file:/home/ed/logs/Tgt64bcom2.log" ] > Ian. > Ed _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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