[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#665882: Bug#665882: xen-utils-common: Xen console for guest not working, hangs

Thomas Goirand thomas at goirand.fr
Wed Mar 28 10:11:33 UTC 2012


On 03/27/2012 03:08 AM, Roland Lammel wrote:
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
>    Xen guests did not boot correctly (CentOS 4.9 hang on hardware
>    initialization) and xm console is not working (hangs without any
>    output)

IMO, this is a typical miss-configuration of the guest. What did you
configure in /etc/inittab as console? What is your domU kernel command
line options (especially those regarding the console)? What kernel do
you run for this CentOS guest? Are you using pygrub, and the kernel
inside the domU, or the 3.2 Linux kernel from dom0?

>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
>    Xen guests boot and xm console works

Well, since the console device has been renamed in newer Linux kernels,
you do have some manual work to do, and I don't think you should write
that this is a Xen bug.

Please include your domU startup file in this bug report.

Thomas





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