Hello, I''m enjoying my Xen quest very much thus far. Q: How does one handle the situation of multiple root users on dom0 trying to `xm console'' to the same guest? I was unable to use the virtual console at all until I added a line to inittab for agetty to spawn on xvc0. Now I''m not sure of an elegant solution for supporting multiple consoles (possible?), or even ''locking'' the one while it is in use. Thanks for any ideas, Brett -- booterdev1:/data/notes/xen $ fortune Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Brett Campbell wrote:> Hello, > > I''m enjoying my Xen quest very much thus far. > > Q: How does one handle the situation of multiple > root users on dom0 > trying to `xm console'' to the same guest? > > I was unable to use the virtual console at all until I > added a line to inittab for agetty to spawn on xvc0.That''s normal.> Now I''m not sure of an elegant solution > for supporting multiple consoles (possible?), or even > ''locking'' the one while it is in use.I would use screen(1) and run xm console in that. You still only have on VC but at least you can all get to it. You can setup the ACLS so that all admin accounts have access to the screen session. Yours Tony linux.conf.au http://linux.conf.au/ || http://lca2008.linux.org.au/ Jan 28 - Feb 02 2008 The Australian Linux Technical Conference! _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Nico Kadel-Garcia
2007-May-24 23:14 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] xen remote console and multiple admins
Brett Campbell wrote:> Hello, > > I''m enjoying my Xen quest very much thus far. > > Q: How does one handle the situation of multiple > root users on dom0 > trying to `xm console'' to the same guest? > > I was unable to use the virtual console at all until I > added a line to > inittab for agetty to spawn on xvc0. Now I''m not sure of > an elegant solution > for supporting multiple consoles (possible?), or even > ''locking'' the one > while it is in use. >This line, used in the RHEL 4.5 and RHEL 5 configurations, does not work with the Xensource published 3.1.0 kernels. But there seems no built-in solution to this: a flax for the xm console commands would be a reasonable approach, but I find that working with SSH to the virtual hosts works better. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users