On Mon January 9 2006 15:49, Bruno wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:01, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Bruno wrote: > > > I would like to assign a virtual console to one or more vservers running > > > on my box. > > > > > > e.g. > > > vc0 - vc6 for host system > > > vc7 for first vserver > > > vc8 for second vserver > > > none for third vserver > > > ... > > > > [...] > > > > > Is this possible? > > > > You need the console device file in the vserver dev directory, and you > > need to tweak the vserver inittab. > > This worked. > > For my example I will let the guest start on tty8 and spawn gettys on tty8 > and > tty9. > > Steps: > - create /dev/tty8 (major 4, minor 8) > - create /dev/tty9 (major 4, minor 9) > - create /dev/console (major 4, minor 8) > A bit obscure unless one recalls that the kernel uses major-minor numbers rather than names.
Could not the same thing be done with a sym-link? ln -s /dev/tty8 console That would be a little more obvious when you listed the /dev/* at some later date. Mike > - add "c8:2345:respawn:sbin/getty 38400 tty8 linux" to inittab > - add "c9:2345:respawn:sbin/getty 38400 tty9 linux" to inittab > > Then start/restart the guest and output appears as expected. > > Guest is configured using init style "plain" > > Bruno > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > > _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
