From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 24 04:50:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF497106564A; Sun, 24 May 2009 04:50:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648388FC13; Sun, 24 May 2009 04:50:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.local (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by pooker.samsco.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n4O4GDG3095629; Sat, 23 May 2009 22:16:13 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4A18CA0D.6050805@samsco.org> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 22:16:13 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.6 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, freebsd-current Subject: Re: Default Xen PVM console? X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 04:50:46 -0000 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