Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of InvirtSetupNotes


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Mar 24, 2013, 8:09:04 PM (11 years ago)
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  • InvirtSetupNotes

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    3131- Xen: if you create a hypervisor VM with virt-install or friends, you'll need to go back in afterwards and turn all the virtio devices back to emulated ones. Xen straight up cannot deal with them and will fail in mysterious ways.
     32- Xen: Just installing the Xen system and rebooting into it will break serial console in several ways. You need:
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     34in /etc/default/grub:
     35{{{
     36GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN="loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all com1=38400,8n1 console=com1"
     37GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=hvc0 earlyprintk=xen"
     38}}}
     39in /etc/init/ttyS0.conf: change 'ttyS0' to 'hvc0' and restart ttyS0
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     41- Xen: Also, disable the splash screen, quiet-boot, and kernel modesetting, or you'll go mad trying to debug boot problems
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