Hi, I think it's a moot point, but for anyone with a working kernel, a working console looks like this;
>>/boot/grub/menu.lst; ------ serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal --timeout=2 serial console title Xen 3.2.0 root (hd0,0) kernel /xen-3.2.0.gz com1=115200,8n1 console=com1 module /vmlinuz-2.6.21-prep root=/dev/md0 ro console=xvc0 module /initrd.img-2.6.21-prep quiet ------ >>/etc/event.d/xvc0 ------- start on runlevel 2 start on runlevel 3 start on runlevel 4 start on runlevel 5 stop on runlevel 0 stop on runlevel 1 stop on runlevel 6 respawn exec /sbin/getty -L 115200 xvc0 vt220 ------- >>Xen instance.cfg ------- kernel = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-prep' ramdisk = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.21-prep' disk = [ 'drbd:dhcp,xvda,w' ] vif = [ 'ip=x.x.x.x,mac=00:00:00:00:00:xx,bridge=eth0' ] root = '/dev/xvda ro' name = 'dhcp' on_poweroff = 'destroy' on_reboot = 'restart' on_crash = 'restart' serial_device = 'xvc0' memory = '128' vcpus = '1' ------- I use Xen "a lot" and run over 40 virtual servers over about 10 physical servers providing live web and email services over the Internet. Last time(s) I looked (and I've looked fairly recently) Ubuntu Xen simply did not work. When I say "did not work", there are a sufficient number of show stopping critical problems as to make it totally useless in a production environment. My current environment involves using an Ubuntu Hardy (or Gutsy) filesystem base with a Redhat kernel, and Xen 3.2 compiled up from scratch. This combination works for me and is 101% stable. Unless someone is going to put some serious effort into getting Xen sorted, personally I'd "can it" as an Ubuntu project and I'd certainly be removing it from the repo's in the meantime .. it makes Xen look flakey (which it's not) and Ubuntu "alpha" .. which it shouldn't be. To be fair, Redhat have had to put an awful lot of effort into their Xen project to make it viable, I'm not entirely sure from what I've seen that Ubuntu have that sort of resource available. The core issue seems to be that Xen runs on specific kernels (only) and trying to insist that all Ubuntu's work on the same kernel, then trying to patch the Xen code into the current kernel, when the Xen guys themselves have declined to do so .. well .. it's asking for trouble really. -- Serial Console redirection no longer works properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160455 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
