From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 3 05:23:42 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7C91145 for ; Sun, 3 May 2015 05:23:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-f175.google.com (mail-pd0-f175.google.com [209.85.192.175]) (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 BC63B12A8 for ; Sun, 3 May 2015 05:23:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pdbqa5 with SMTP id qa5so133187366pdb.1 for ; Sat, 02 May 2015 22:23:36 -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 :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Y4X8jhEOc7YuD5HZbtGb5I/wbprH4ZL79yNtgDINl6g=; b=fMhvFcXDNbErkkWC2GfemA95e9I/HhWzYgX8KNhyr2EstNk6bUHENRjmsj1p8P5lHm 9CzioqUIRF9VSL81wFy0+kEswfYnS8pFp28Rs3ArvGGVGjCVJBN4ZFCQrBdfzWeqeD3D vTEgJppJVZiehEe5mPakZfw9vQGkIxy4izfeBaVLCdf4lmcMKE0xPHDL+hLuGHIDyfvd uIsinVqjzJP/qEyXg2Nd/WahsVmBUES+CJRQe00ajAgmJrQOkb30+RInSRbGqmiLE7Vr JEKCLh94ToS7If6JVxxb94jzikLl3SfCwSjl362Xmv46JhsPXbO3tlhk7tRSPCWBJKNm bDzQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkQRTXaCWnlmGjnmey3NCxuvcq5Y8OtjuBxePd76sogDoMJ1wbDKQ37F2po1Nc7dVpksmRs X-Received: by 10.70.33.67 with SMTP id p3mr31378283pdi.126.1430630616013; Sat, 02 May 2015 22:23:36 -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 tk9sm9036421pbc.35.2015.05.02.22.23.35 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 02 May 2015 22:23:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5545B0DA.8010902@callfortesting.org> Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 22:23:38 -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: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xen_kernel, console and X11 References: <20150502154340.GA8333@kloomba> 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 05:23:43 -0000 On 5/2/15 7:41 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. It doesn't >> >respond to any input though. On the other hand, the system doesn't seem >> >to be frozen, at least power button triggers an ACPI event for power >> >off. >> > > I can concur, I am seeing the same thing as the configuration you have > follwing that doc this morning. > I also have the black screen with the white cursor..... Verify that the /etc/ttys change is made. Try "console=com1,vga" and "com1=115200,8n1,pci" in the Xen string in loader.conf Using an ExpressCard serial interface, I had to set the setting manually: set comconsole_pcidev=5:0:0 set comconsole_port=0x4000 set comconsole_speed=115200 That's all I have figured out so far. Do share if you get it working. Michael Dexter