On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 01:39:45PM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote: > Matthias Saou wrote: > > > Does anyone know if it's possible to get everything set up so that I > > can log into the RHEL6 domU from the RHEL5 dom0 after a simple "xm > > console"? > > The typical "cry for help, then figure it out within minutes". > > I reinstalled a new RHEL6 domU, passing --nographics to virt-install, > and anaconda set up everything just fine. Things are quite different > from RHEL6, mostly because of how init is now configured, but I saw the > difference : hvc0 vs. xvc0. >
Yep, "xvc0" is the console device for old "Xenlinux" kernels, but the upstream kernel.org Linux kernels use "hvc0" as the console device for Xen pvops PV guests. -- Pasi > On the graphically installed RHEL6 domU, I just needed to put > "console=hvc0" on the kernel command line (instead of xvc0 to which I > was used to), and everything worked from there : > * Kernel boot messages still got displayed (they were with xvc0 too) > * System boot messages started being displayed without further changes > * An agetty login process got spawned automatically > * Even hvc0 got added to /etc/securetty automatically! > > Solved, and working nicely :-) > > Matthias > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
