[Pkg-xen-devel] xen 2.6.26 on amd64 console troubles

[Frederik]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 11:49 +0200, Frederik wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Frederik <freggy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > The only workaround that somehow works is
>> > extra = "console=hvc0 xencons=hvc0" and tty1 ini inittab. Then I get a console,
>> > but it's limited to 80 chars wide. And the SSH problem still happens.
>
> Oh, I forgot this tree has the SuSE patch which changes some of this
> stuff back to match the old -xen trees rather than the modern paravirt
> way of doing things.
>
> You could try using xvc rather than hvc. That was the previous name of
> hvc in the old trees.

Right, using xvc0 in the extras line in test.cfg and inittab, makes
the console work.
However, SSH still gives
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
stdin: is not a tty

During apt-get install less, I also get the warning:
Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)

> I'm not convinced we actually want this aspect of the SuSE patch,
> Bastian what do you think?


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Frederik