Paul Wouters <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I spend some time figuring out why my old centos/rhel/fc images I converted > for xen didnt have a proper serial console. It turns out they have either > a missing or older version of /dev/xvc0. > > The fix is to make sure the new device eixsts. either in the initrd and/or > some other place. Since these older versions of the OS are likely booting > with a newer kernel (from your FC6 host), you have a non working udev, so > you need to make sure the device exists manually: > > mknod /dev/xvc0 c 250 187 This major number is in the range for local/experimental use. LANANA recently approved 204 191 for xvc, and upstream switched to it. Watch out for this when you update your kernel in the future. [...] -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
