Re: Problem installing xen guest on Fedora Core 7

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Mike,


On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 16:29 -0700, Mike wrote: 
> Hi Travis,
> 
> It *is* working. It's just that the console has gone graphical at that
> point.
> 
> >From a recent response I gave to someone with the same problem:
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> It *is* working. I ran into this myself with F7, and it took me a bit to
> figure out what was going on. Your console has been redirected to the
> graphical console from the serial console at that point in the guest
> boot process. Here's what to do:
> 
> 1) Fire up virt-manager in dom-0. You'll see your guest running (xm and
> virsh will show it as blocked).


Correct so far.


> From the 'view' menu, select the
> graphical console and you'll get your guest's login screen.


I get:

"The console is currently unavailable"

The serial console just shows a black screen with the cursor flashing in
the top-left corner . .

So I can't get to the stuff below . .

Thanks,

Phil.


> 2) In order to have the output of your guest appear in both consoles,
> add the following to your guest's kernel line in grub.conf:
> 
> console=tty console=xvc0,9600n8
> 
> Now you'll see all the output in both the text and the graphical console.
> 
> Note that you'll also need to edit /etc/securetty and add 'xvc0', and
> check /etc/inittab and make sure you have a line like:
> 
> co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty xvc0 9600 vt100-nav
> 
> as well.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Mike
> 
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