Tracy R Reed wrote:
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.
I may just have to blame redhat for this, but anything using their tui stuff similar to system-config-* just doesn't show up right. Meaning that the text install of centos 5 was bj0rk3d. vim also ate the terminal quite promptly. Additionally, xm(?) makes the console default to 25 lines long. I often like to vertically maximize my terminals so I have a longer on-screen bufffer -- can't do this. So while console messages do get sent to it, some of them are often greater than 25 lines long (kernel panics, anyone?) -- I end up losing a bit of real estate I'd like to have back. Oh, and when xm console exits, it has eaten my terminal and I need to do a full reset to get it back.
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:
Oh, so you mean they connect VNC up to Xvfb? Cute, clever, creative, but not *exactly* what I had in mind. It'll do for now, but what I really want is virtualized VGA hardware (kind of like how vmware does it).
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC5#head-4b06eebfd9ee7d882cc9888d5dab3fbbbd0144b4
I'll have to give this a shot and install f7 into a VM. I still won't get to use fdisk to set up my partitions, though. *angst* Disk druid *SUCKS*
Anyhow, back to work. -Kelsey -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
