[Fedora-xen] DomU console driver not works for Fedora17 in HVM mode with Xen 4.1.2

Stefano Stabellini stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com
Thu Aug 23 13:20:17 UTC 2012


On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Wei Xu wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> I have tried the method but it looks still can't work, there is no "hvc0" device file in my "/dev" directory,
> is that the root cause?

Reading again the previous message, it is clear that you are still using
xm/xend as toolstack to create VMs. Unfortunately xend doesn't support
PV consoles for HVM guests, you need to use the new xl toolstack if
you'd like to use that functionality.

See: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XL


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