[Fedora-xen] execute commands from dom0 into domU
Steve Brueckner
steve at atc-nycorp.com
Thu Mar 11 18:05:53 UTC 2010
> On 03/11/2010 08:36 AM, Steve Brueckner wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:58:56AM -0500, silviu d wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I was wondering if there is a way to execute commands
> >> from dom0 into domU
> >>> without loging into domU with ssh.
> >>>
> >>
> >> No, not really.
> >>
> >> Unless you build up some custom management tool that runs
> in the domU
> >> and monitors the xenstore for commands from dom0, and then
> executes
> >> them.
> >>
> >> -- Pasi
> >
> > What about the xen console? I haven't used Xen in about a year, so
> > maybe it's gone? We used to use the console to execute commands
> > inside domU from dom0 without using the network.
>
> Xen console still exists but I think it only works for
> paravirt domUs because it relies on the xenconsole backend.
We were able to connect to HVMs as well using xen console. To do so we
had to set up the domU to listen for terminals on it's serial port.
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