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

[Ian Campbell]

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 12:34 +0200, Frederik wrote:
> 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

Not sure about this, might you not have /dev/pts mounted?

Ian.
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