From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrew D. Ball" Subject: Re: HVM - BIOS serial console redirection? Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 17:06:18 -0400 Message-ID: <447CB3CA.6030201@us.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: 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: Nate Carlson Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Have you tried serial = 'pty' in the domU's configuration? This makes the domU's virtual serial port look like the console of a paravirtualized domU, so you can use 'xm console' and 'xm create -c' on it. I'm not sure what you mean by the BIOS contents ... Good luck. Andrew Nate Carlson wrote: > I realized this is probably better suited for the devel list.. > basically, is there any way in the BOCHS bios to enable 'Serial Console > Redirection', where you see the BIOS contents over the serial line? > > Windows 2003's 'Emergency Management Services' console (which allows you > to do installs and fix stuff over the serial line) requires this to > activate.. piece of crap. > > It'd also be nice for *NIX installs on HVM, where you don't want to deal > with SDL or VNC. > > Thanks much! :) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | nate carlson | natecars@natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | > | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:24:46 -0500 (CDT) > From: Nate Carlson > To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com > Subject: [Xen-users] HVM: Emergency Management Services for W2K3 under Xen > HVM? > > It'd be nice to be able to use the "Emergency Management Services" for > Windows 2003 under Xen.. apparently, to use them, however, the BIOS has > to support serial redirection. Is there any way to get the BOCHS bios to > support serial redirection? I haven't been able to find anything. > > Thanks! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | nate carlson | natecars@natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | > | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel