Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:02:17 +0200 From: Jeroen van der Ham <jeroen@dckd.nl> To: =?utf-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xen console on 10.1 DomU Message-ID: <59CA2328-4AC7-4098-8BCA-6A5A5E9A5929@dckd.nl> In-Reply-To: <55AD1C09.7040500@citrix.com> References: <4C92646F-4307-4A45-B35E-DFBD09A71313@dckd.nl> <55AD1C09.7040500@citrix.com>
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Hi, > On 20 Jul 2015, at 18:04, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote: > > 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 * http://wiki.xen.org (completely outdated, “official” documentation points to installation of FreeBSD 7.2(!))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. 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.home | help
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