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Subject: Re: Xen console on 10.1 DomU
From: Jeroen van der Ham <jeroen@dckd.nl>
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Hi,

> On 20 Jul 2015, at 18:04, Roger Pau Monn=C3=A9 <roger.pau@citrix.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> El 17/07/15 a les 21.02, Jeroen van der Ham ha escrit:
>> Hi,
>>=20
>> What is the current way of getting a xen console on a FreeBSD 10.1 =
DomU?
>>=20
>> I=E2=80=99ve 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 * http://wiki.xen.org (completely outdated, =E2=80=9Cofficial=E2=80=9D =
documentation points to installation of FreeBSD 7.2(!))
>>=20
>> I found instructions to add a line to /boot/loader.conf =
(console=3D"comconsole=E2=80=9D)
>> or a line to /etc/ttys (xc0     "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt100 =
  on  secure)
>=20
> You shouldn't need to modify /etc/ttys at all unless you are using a
> FreeBSD PVH guest or Dom0.
>=20
>> 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
>>=20
>> Is it still possible to get a console from a Linux Dom0? How?
>> What would be the best place to publish instructions for that?
>=20
> Which kind of guest are you trying to get the console from?
>=20
> If it's a HVM guest (I'm only guessing here), you need to add
> serial=3D'pty' to your xl configuration file and then follow
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html.

Thanks, that did the trick.
Now the question remains where to document this properly so that others =
will not be mislead by all the other advice out there?

Jeroen.