That's great Dave, thanks! Credit is due to Zhixue Wu for the initial work in vncterm, and to Simon Rowe for review of that work before it went in.
Cheers, Ewan. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Scott > Sent: 28 July 2011 09:37 > To: [email protected] > Cc: Ewan Mellor > Subject: FW: [xen-org/xen-api] 66083e: CA-63739: Fix console handling > after reboot/migrat... > > Hi xen-api, > > As of changeset 66083ee70 in xen-org/xen-api master there is > experimental support for pure PV text consoles. > > It's now possible to type: > > $ xe console vm=myvm > > to attach to the console, just like "xm console" and "xl console". This > avoids having to mess around with port-forwarding and VNC, making > debugging a lot easier. > > From the XenAPI point of view, a PV guest now has 2 consoles, one with > protocol=rfb and one with protocol=vt100. The vncterm VNC is still > available via the protocol=rfb console. > > Many thanks to Ewan Mellor (cc:d) who provided the necessary changes to > vncterm to make this work! > > Furthermore for the really adventurous, there is experimental > experimental support for PVFB, activated by setting the option: > > $ xe vm-param-set uuid=... platform:pvfb=true > > Anecdotally this worked quite well for me when I installed a debian > squeeze VM. > > Cheers, > Dave Scott
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