From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 3 15:04:52 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98607929 for ; Sun, 3 May 2015 15:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-f169.google.com (mail-pd0-f169.google.com [209.85.192.169]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E4DB166F for ; Sun, 3 May 2015 15:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pdea3 with SMTP id a3so141050936pde.3 for ; Sun, 03 May 2015 08:04:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wMtpTKy9/RvAcfgKq56FFjf+qFNLWDBZl0fIt40Jmik=; b=LAL+UIFRSKF3S58RsoKTYzJI47KtsJy1alsUPeOP+c3BSXrUYhg/HwSx9sRnO82uce blpSnlHeU1aPZYHPXQFW8qB6jod0KCR5pGQz/dmjgTzSDUEvvuJYACkAweLjKDTWa5BP vUB7DVvFBnvY5J3UAVxST/I9AGXdHp6VIjCHa/eP1IV0mV5jY6rqhnFv32S3hj9ywP9m 3kOJr6QIW2pBTykTkrbxw9UVrNJVmD7PqSex/EU4jSabdi1oyFplkhvdjfVyfGBe4OIW VVyA/icgGUdForT4a7sFES6xF0RjlPl2kRBRI0/e7Aby+T0bYQUanFhoMdibWxq5qvMc 3eEA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmZehw98kK5lPjyxjZTKWs7QLOOtfYjD2ZiexNspiN5wgL3mmzqQqI0o3FgRDSulXbmr/o5 X-Received: by 10.66.139.167 with SMTP id qz7mr34739702pab.135.1430665485840; Sun, 03 May 2015 08:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Michaels-MacBook-Pro.local (c-73-25-21-123.hsd1.or.comcast.net. [73.25.21.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id as1sm10151545pbc.39.2015.05.03.08.04.44 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 03 May 2015 08:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5546390C.7010402@callfortesting.org> Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 08:04:44 -0700 From: Michael Dexter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Outback Dingo CC: Roman Bogorodskiy , freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org, bapt@freebsd.org, royger@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xen_kernel, console and X11 References: <20150502154340.GA8333@kloomba> <5545AA4D.20106@callfortesting.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 15:04:52 -0000 On 5/2/15 10:04 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: >>> When I drop 'console=com1' from 'xen_cmdline', I cannot even see a login >>> >>screen. All I can see is a black screen with a white cursor. > > im not running X Please clarify: Are you not getting a FreeBSD login prompt on a hardware console or are you trying to connect to the FreeBSD host over a serial connection. If the prior, do make sure you are using the specified host and port SVN versions, you may simply need to wait for the FreeBSD prompt to appear after the FreeBSD kernel messages have completed (though not visibly). If the latter, do include console="comconsole" in /boot/loader.conf Michael Dexter