[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-users] New to xen
I started experimenting with xen this evening, and I'm rather frustrated already. None of the documentation seems to correlate or match up with any other documentation. We are currently PXE booting and kickstarting bare metal systems, and that is working fine. In order to maintain the same deployment procedure to bare metal and virtual machines I would like to do the same with xen guests. However, it seems like pvm guests don't support network booting and hvm guests don't support the virtual console. I've seen documentation that says you have to add console output to your kernel boot arguments... but what sort of serial console is that? Is it a real serial console or a virtualised one??? The Xen FAQ (http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenFaq) says that you an add console access by adding a new entry to xinetd... didn't seem to work though. Am I even looking the right thing here? Is this talking about the virtual console that connects me to a guest, or something else? A lot of people seem to be using vnc to connect to their guests (again, because hvm guests don't support the serial console). Why? I mean, if your going to go use a graphic UI to manage the guests, you might as well just go use vmware. Hell will freeze over before I use a graphic UI to manage by servers, bare metal or virtual. Heck, OpenVZ is completely command line driven and it's 'console' command works just fine. Grrrrr. Doug _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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