Re: [Xen-users] console problem

["Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Paola Salviato <psalviato@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One of my problems is that I'm working on a red-hat with a xen kernel (dom0)
> and, apart from that, I have just virt-manager installed. Nobody told me to
> use xen-tools or xen-shell, it seems things should work anyway, but it's

virt-install, virt-manager, and virsh is enough if you're comfortable
with with it. Personally I like "xm" better. Any of them should work.
The same is also true when you use Xen 3.3.1 rpms from Gitco on
RHEL/Centos.

> also true that I'm quite free to do what I want. With virt-install I have
> already succeeded in installing virtual machines, but I don't have the
> console anyway. What should I do, in your opinion?

AFAIK virt-install on RHEL should create a working xen installation
with a usable vnc console.
If you want a text console that you can connect to with "xm console",
however, you need to do some additional setup. Basically the same
thing you'd do if you want to setup serial console on a real machine,
with the difference that serial port name is xvc0.

I wrote something earlier on this list about using jailtime.org images
on RHEL/Centos. It should give you an alternative way to setup domU
(other than using virt-install), plus give you a hint on how to setup
domU with text console

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2009-03/msg00372.html

The part that sets up serial port are the ones about /etc/inittab and
/etc/securetty. Note that my example config file is different from the
ones created with virt-install, in that it ONLY have text console
without vnc.

Regards,

Fajar

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