[libvirt] [Xen-devel] [PATCH LIBVIRT] libxl: Recognise ARM architectures

Ian Campbell Ian.Campbell at citrix.com
Wed Feb 26 14:55:13 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 15:00 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 12:37 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:34:17PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > Currently virsh console fails with:
> > > >   Connected to domain libvirt-test
> > > >   Escape character is ^]
> > > >   error: internal error: cannot find character device <null>
> > > That'll be because no <console> or <serial> device is
> > > listed in your config above I expect. Also looks like
> > > bogus error handling in the console API, not checking
> > > for <null>.
> > Thanks. I've just tried (inside <devices>...</...>):
> >          <console tty='/dev/pts/5'/>
> > and
> >      <console type='pty'>
> >       <target port='0'/>
> >     </console>
> > which I gleaned from http://libvirt.org/drvxen.html but neither seem to
> > do the trick (and the first ones use of an explicit pts looks odd to
> > me...).
> 
> I learned yesterday this should be "serial" instead of "console", maybe
> it fixes also your case.

My understanding was that this was for HVM guests, whereas ARM has a PV
console but I suppose I should try it anyway. I've got a flight to catch
so it'll be a few days I expect.

Thanks,

Ian.




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