From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH] libxl: default to xenconsoled for pv guests, even if qemu is running Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:52:09 +0100 Message-ID: <1335351129.28015.30.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> References: <20375.53950.77177.102406@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20375.53950.77177.102406@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: Stefano Stabellini , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 11:32 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH] libxl: default to xenconsoled for pv guests, even if qemu is running"): > > libxl: default to xenconsoled for pv guests, even if qemu is running. > > > > Currently we prefer to use qemu for the disk backend if we are starting qemu > > anyway (e.g. to service a disk). > ... > > I'm not sure if this is 4.2 material, perhaps too late to be making this sort > > of change? > > I think we can regard this as a bugfix, or make an exception. > > But: have you tested this ? ISTR hearing that there was some > difficulty getting a pv qemu not to try to provide the console. I did run a PV guest with it and it seemed to be doing what I expected (i.e. my guest logs showed up in /var/log/xen/console). Ian.