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Date:      Sun, 24 May 2009 11:26:29 +0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject:   Default Xen PVM console?
Message-ID:  <d763ac660905232026n6542fd17k8f6c8625543be4fa@mail.gmail.com>

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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,


Adrian



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