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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: pvops netconsole
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:09:12 -0800
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On 02/04/2010 04:15 PM, Brad Plant wrote:
> Initialising Xen virtual ethernet driver.
> blkfront: xvda1: barriers enabled
> netconsole: local port 11111
> netconsole: local IP 10.20.40.2
> netconsole: interface eth1
> netconsole: remote port 9514
> netconsole: remote IP 10.20.50.2
> netconsole: remote ethernet address 00:16:3e:00:50:02
> netconsole: eth1 doesn't support polling, aborting.
> netconsole: cleaning up
>    

The xen-netfront device doesn't support the polling interface that 
netconsole relies on.  It probably wouldn't be too hard to add that 
capability if you want to.  It's independent of the backend and/or the 
actual underlying hardware device.

     J