On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:12:55AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > Hi Dan, > Looks fine to me ... > > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:12 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > On Xen we have very simple approach. When creating a guest simply add > > > > <console/> > > > > And it'll cause a serial port to be setup with an autoallocated pty, so > > you get back > > > > <console pty='/dev/pts/5'/> > > > > In retrospect calling it 'console' was dumb, but hey we're stuck with that > > now and its only a tiny naming issue so I don't mind really. > > Why not add 'serial' with the new syntax, making <serial type='pty' /> > equivalent to <console />, and continue supporting the existing > 'console' syntax? I thought about this too, but given that it adds complexity to the XML, and to the code & is a source of potential confusion, I just don't see that we come out with a net win. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|