From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivan Kelly Subject: Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Custom Guest OS not booting Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 20:33:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20051003193318.GA4574@localhost.localdomain> References: <20051002181407.GF3033@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:13:26PM -0500, Scott Parish wrote: > I didn't check which hcall you're making, but i'm betting its the one > to do consoleio. By default, only dom0 is allowed to do such. You're yup, it's console io. > options are either to do the work to get domU io working (non- > trivial), or hack xen to allow anybody to write to consoleio. Look in > xen/drivers/char/console.c line 349: I tried the hack to allow all to write, but that didn't seem to work. where should the console io go to? the linux console? xm dmesg? If I was to try and get domu io working where should i start? im guessing it's a matter of writing a tty driver. does xen have a backend driver for this type of thing? Regards Ivan