Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 22:16:13 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Default Xen PVM console? Message-ID: <4A18CA0D.6050805@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <d763ac660905232026n6542fd17k8f6c8625543be4fa@mail.gmail.com> References: <d763ac660905232026n6542fd17k8f6c8625543be4fa@mail.gmail.com>
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Adrian Chadd wrote: > G'day, > > I'd like to twiddle the Xen console stuff a little bit to make it > easier to bootstrap a PVM. > > There's a couple of options I can think of: > > * Patch /etc/ttys to have a default "xc0" Xen console, but disabled > (which makes it trivial for users / scripts to disable the syscons > console and enable the xc console); > * Modify the xenconsole driver to attach to ttyv0 (via a kernel > environment variable) so /etc/ttys doesn't need modifying (but this > may confuse tools that assumes /dev/ttyvX == syscons.) > > Opinions? I'd like to sneak in one of these before the release process > begins for 8.0. > > Thanks, Treat xen as a new platform and have a src/etc/etc.xen directory that holds the xen-specific ttys files, along with similar things that it'll likely need. Scott
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