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From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Subject: Re: Guest serial console hangs
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 22:30:23 +0200
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Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andre Przywara writes ("[Xen-devel] Guest serial console hangs"):
>> for some weeks now I experience strange hangs in the HVM guest's serial 
>> console.
> 
> What is the guest kernel ?  There were bugs in Linux's serial port
> driver which had these symptoms.
Good hint! That cured the problem. It was an older kernel (from 
ttylinux, serial console support added). I tried 2.6.36-rc3 and it 
worked like a charm! Thanks!

Just out of curiosity: Can you give me a hint when or where these bugs 
were fixed?

Regards,
Andre.

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Andre Przywara
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