From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933449Ab3GPQes (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:34:48 -0400 Received: from b.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.144]:1660 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932865Ab3GPQer (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:34:47 -0400 Message-ID: <51E57620.3000907@nod.at> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 18:34:40 +0200 From: Richard Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ramkumar Ramachandra CC: LKML , Jeff Dike , Al Viro Subject: Re: [QUERY] User-Mode Linux and /dev/tty* References: <51E56DCB.3040108@nod.at> <51E5705B.3070705@nod.at> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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