Hi Richard,

On Fri Apr 11, 2025 at 15:27:18 +0000, Richard Clark wrote:
> L4Re,
> 
> I’ve been working with the examples and tweaking them for AMD64 (QEMU),
> and I’ve managed to get linux up and booting, reading the ramdisk,
> and even spawning a login process which kicks off /bin/sh and displays
> a # prompt. And that’s great, but that’s all it does. I can’t get any input
> to it. That’s using the device hvc0. Of course uvmm complains that there
> is no virtual console and warns that it might not work, so the software
> is at least not surprised! 😊 But when I try to use the device ttyS0,
> linux stops printing even before the login process tries to run. I don’t get
> any errors, but also no output. And I can’t seem to run the IO server
> because then linux won’t load at all (something about out-of-memory).
> 
> I’m sure I’m missing some little piece of magic somewhere, but I can’t
> find any working examples. None of them have active logins (I had to add
> my own iniittab to the ramdisk). A little help connecting the cons
> service to my linux so I can get a real bash shell? Or running IO and
> connecting through that?

Did you try to run for example the "VM-basic" entry that is there? That
is supposed to be a minimal working example.
Please also provide the output from the system you're getting, that is
helping understanding what's going on.


Thanks, Adam
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