After using the FC5 I created a rather trivial bash script that can spawn either xenconsole or mingetty on a given console. In order to use-it you have to add/change inittab entries. For example, to have the Rawhide XenU on tty5 if it''s available or mingetty if not, you would have to change the mingetty tty5 line to the following (without the quotes: "5:345:respawn:/usr/sbin/xengetty Rawhide tty5" Here is the script (it''s assumed that you''ll put-it into /usr/sbin under the xengetty name): --------BEGIN SCRIPT------ #!/bin/bash # Small wrapper around xm console. # It will start mingetty if the domain is not available DOMAIN=$1 TTY=$2 XM=/usr/sbin/xm GETTY=/sbin/mingetty DOMID=`$XM domid $DOMAIN 2>/dev/null` if [ -z $DOMID ]; then exec $GETTY $TTY else exec $XM console $DOMID < /dev/$TTY > /dev/$TTY 2> /dev/$TTY fi ------END OF SCRIPT----- I created the script as I needed the feature and, although trivial, I am sure that mentioning this in the wiki might be helpful for others as well... Cheers, Razvan