Re: serial console with xen

["Jan Kundrát" <jan.kundrat@fzu.cz>]

Matthieu Patou wrote:
> Hi,
> i've tried to activate serial output with the hypervisor and dom0 but 
> with no success
> I'm just able to have serial console for grub with those two following 
> line (so with this i'm sure that my serial configuration is oK)
> serial --unit=0 --speed=57600
> terminal --timeout=10 serial console

I'm using

serial --unit=0 --speed=115200
terminal serial

title Xen 2.0 / XenLinux 2.6.9
kernel (hd0,0)/xen.gz dom0_mem=65536 com1=115200,8n1
module (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0 root=/dev/hda3 ro console=ttyS0
#ttyS0 is actually Xen's fake

> I expect from this setup to have also my dom0 console on serial line, a 
> couple of month ago i've read a message from Ian (i think) saying that 
> it's not necessary to supply console=tty0,ttyS0 in order to have dom0 
> console on the serial line

Don't compile anything serial-related into your kernels.

-jkt

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