Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:04:25 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?Um9nZXIgUGF1IE1vbm7DqQ==?= <roger.pau@citrix.com> To: Jeroen van der Ham <jeroen@dckd.nl>, <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xen console on 10.1 DomU Message-ID: <55AD1C09.7040500@citrix.com> In-Reply-To: <4C92646F-4307-4A45-B35E-DFBD09A71313@dckd.nl> References: <4C92646F-4307-4A45-B35E-DFBD09A71313@dckd.nl>
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El 17/07/15 a les 21.02, Jeroen van der Ham ha escrit: > Hi, > > What is the current way of getting a xen console on a FreeBSD 10.1 DomU? > > I’ve been searching on: > * https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen (reasonably up to date, but has no info on console) > * http://wiki.xen.org (completely outdated, “official” documentation points to installation of FreeBSD 7.2(!)) > > I found instructions to add a line to /boot/loader.conf (console="comconsole”) > or a line to /etc/ttys (xc0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt100 on secure) You shouldn't need to modify /etc/ttys at all unless you are using a FreeBSD PVH guest or Dom0. > But in either case I am getting an error on the Linux Dom0: > xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory > > Is it still possible to get a console from a Linux Dom0? How? > What would be the best place to publish instructions for that? Which kind of guest are you trying to get the console from? If it's a HVM guest (I'm only guessing here), you need to add serial='pty' to your xl configuration file and then follow https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html. Roger.
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