On 20.07.2022 10:11, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 20.07.2022 02:33, Dylanger Daly wrote: >>> I'd focus on the booting issues first. And I guess you can take a video >>> of that (assuming that a single screenshot likely isn't going to be >>> enough), possibly with "vga=keep" in place (albeit that introduces >>> extra slowness)? >>> >>> There's also the option of using an EHCI debug port for the serial >>> console, but this requires (a) a special cable and (b) the system >>> designers not having inserted any hubs between the controller andthe >>> connector. >> >> Do you know if it's possible to have `console=vga vga=keep` and specify a >> secondary monitor? This would be very useful if I could have Xen log via a >> secondary monitor, > > No, if anything it could be the other way around. Xen wants to use the > (sole) VGAish thing in the system; Dom0 kernel and Dom0 userspace (X) > may be happy to use any secondary (non-VGA) graphics card. On EFI it > might in principle be possible, but that would require (perhaps quite > a bit of) work in Xen.
Oh - and then likely still only when there are two gfx cards in the system. Otherwise we'd likely get into card-specific-driver territory. Jan
