From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Multiple PVM consoles Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:55:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <60D45469A1AAD311A04C009027B6BF6805FE0237@server20.inside.oracorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:21:59 -0400, Steve Brueckner wrote: > A colleague of mine asked this question on xen-users, but it may be more > of a developer question. We need to make multiple independent console > connections to a paravirtualized VM (not 2 windows sharing a single > console), and without using the network (no telnet or ssh solutions). > Searching the archives I've found about 6 threads discussing this, among > them: > > This one, which says it was on the roadmap for versions 2 and/or 3: > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-07/msg00424.html >> [quoted text muted] > > And these, opening the possibility of 2 consoles (on the paravirt > framebuffer and on a virtual serial port): > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-08/msg00170.html > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-09/msg00072.html > > Can anyone tell me if and when it will be possible to get 2 independent > consoles into a paravirtualized guest? Or will the kernel always have > only one input/output stream, resulting in behavior similar to the > "multiple windows to a shared console" scenario we have now? This feature has been discussed repeated but AFAIK noone has stepped up to actually implement it. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Thanks, > > - Steve > > Stephen Brueckner, ATC-NY