From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [QUERY] User-Mode Linux and /dev/tty*
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 18:34:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E57620.3000907@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0kibE4ZcwEPOGU2Rmt1ZfODqQ0SoN2RmhEp-BiftsF0Uw@mail.gmail.com>
Am 16.07.2013 18:26, schrieb Ramkumar Ramachandra:
> Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> UML does not have virtual consoles.
>
> Then why do I see this on my UML box?
>
> # ls /dev/tty* | wc -l
> 113
>
> Why is it creating unusable devices? Is drivers/tty.c responsible for
> this? What is it exactly?
This is not UML specific.
Are you using devtmpfs?
>> I'm not running HEAD, but opensuse 12.3 (with systemd) works on UML.
>
> Also, what's with all the
>
> xterm_open : run_helper failed, errno = 2
2 is ENOENT.
Do you have uml-utils installed?
> messages? (I installed xterm, but it wasn't very enlightening)
> How is drivers/xterm.c supposed to work? And what is mconsole?
the xterm drivers opens a xterm on the host side using port-helper.
Mconsole is the management console.
Please read the documentation.
Thanks,
//richard
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-16 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-16 15:54 [QUERY] User-Mode Linux and /dev/tty* Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-16 15:59 ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-16 16:03 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-16 16:10 ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-16 16:26 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-16 16:34 ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
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