On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 12:02 -0200, Marco Sinhoreli wrote: > Nice idea to have multiple console support. Is it supported in xen for > paravirt and HVM? >
It already done by Stefano on it pvhvm branch (currently it merges to 2.6.37 linux kernel tree). After that all guest daemons can read/write to/from serial port like spice vdagent in qemu/kvm. > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Vasiliy G Tolstov <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 17:00 -0200, Marco Sinhoreli wrote: > >> Hi Dave: > >> > >> In our case, we need to control if the user requesting a guest remote > >> console will have the xvc0 without a unix user connected. I think to > >> use the xen introspection mechanism and a daemon in-guest to > >> communicate if the console is locked or free. Basically, in our system > >> using the xenapi, we can create a method to request that and receive > >> this information. More important is, maintain this 3rd part open to > >> cloud providers create themselves control systems. > >> > >> Any suggestion? > > > > I like qemu/kvm based solution like virtio-serial. And Stefano provide > > multiply console support - i think this very interesting feature to > > write domU daemon that provides info. Some other solution - XenAccess. > > But it more complicated and i don't know much more about it. > > > > > > > > > -- Vasiliy G Tolstov <[email protected]> Selfip.Ru _______________________________________________ xen-api mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-api
