Mike Gerdts wrote: > Over in sysadmin-discuss I went fishing[1] for interest in console > management mechanisms to hide the differences between the various > console implementations for LDOMs, Zones, xVM, ILOM, ALOM, etc.
A noble goal. I know we have some of that in some of our internal to Sun lab infrastructure. I'll ask what can be released as opensolaris projects. > A couple people have suggested in follow-ups that there may be common > work between the vconsole project and what I was talking about. Being > familiar with virtual consoles offered by Linux (require KVM) and > having managed lots of text-based (9600,8,n,1) consoles in data center > environments, I am not sure that I see the overlap. > > I am *not* after a mechanism where I am at the keyboard (either direct > attach or remote KVM) and I can use keyboard sequences to switch > between a fairly limited (less than 1000) number of virtual consoles > on that one machine. I don't believe this virtual consoles project is not really providing anything usable for your problem. -- Darren J Moffat
