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From: Zhigang Wang <zhigang.x.wang@oracle.com>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: "Xen-Devel (E-mail)" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: hvc0 xvc0 "compatibility"?
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:42:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A42113F.9000301@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e94c5b1-6169-4e07-924c-4316a3ecb330@default>

Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> I have a (RHEL5) guest that I alternate booting with a 2.6.18-xen
> kernel and an upstream kernel.
> 
> Upstream uses hvc0 for the console and 2.6.18-xen uses xvc0.  To
> switch between them, I manually modify /etc/inittab.  If I

dan, can you write two lines include both hvc0 and xvc0 in your /etc/inittab?

thanks,

zhigang

> forget to do this, I get no login prompt and have to destroy
> the domain, restart selecting the other kernel, etc.
> 
> Do I recall a patch that allows one of these kernels to
> handle both hvc0 and xvc0?  That would make my life easier.
> Or is this something that can be done in userland?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-24 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-23 20:00 hvc0 xvc0 "compatibility"? Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-24  8:24 ` Ian Campbell
2009-06-24 14:20   ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-24 11:42 ` Zhigang Wang [this message]
2009-06-24 15:41   ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-24 17:17     ` Ferenc Wagner

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