Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote: > With Xen, would it be possible to allocate virtual console to different > guests ? > > On Linux it's actually rather easy to accomplish. In the /etc/inittab file instead of running a mingetty on that console you put a wrapper shell with respawn that basically does the following:
#!/bin/bash xm console $1 <$2 >$2 2>$2 assuming that $1 is the name of the guest domain and $2 is the tty that it's supposed to run on. I think that it should be just as easy on Solaris. I know that something better could be done, including having a smf service that runs automatically a different guest on each console, and that can have properties which could deny certain guests from appearing, but it can be as simple as one line, as seen above. I am curious how you guys want to implement that. I think that the Xen team should be the one that decides, and I think that SMF should have some hooks designed especially for these kind of services, in which they can choose which tty to run on. Ideally, you should just have to enable the "xengetty", console-login and gnome2-login services with svcadm Cheers, Razvan
