kelsey hudson wrote:
Xen doesn't virtualize the video hardware, as far as I can tell. I haven't been able to get a "real" console to any of my VMs. The console you do get is a pseudoserial console to which the xm app can attach. And even then, this pseudoserial console doesn't properly deal with ncurses, et al, so it's increasingly less useful than it could have been.
Hmm...Just as a test I fired up mutt in a xen console and it works just fine. That pseudoserial console is a "real" console. Console messages go to it and everything.
We'll see what happens. Perhaps Xen will mature to where it can provide a virtual framebuffer for all domains. That'd be nice.
Xen provides a vnc based graphical console. You can even use it during install time so it is a real console. Although I haven't used it a bit of googling suggests plenty of others have. Here is a brief reference to this capability, best I can find so late at night when I don't feel like extensive googling:
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