Hi, I''ve been posting this question to lots of lists and not getting good answers. I have a Ubuntu Hardy laptop. With a ssh connection to a RHEL5 xen dom0. Running cobbler/koan on the dom0 Koan --virt --nogfx ... starts a new domU on the xen box and starts up the RHEL5 installer the installer attempts to configure its network interface using DHCP and gets stuck If this was an install on a real physical hardware I would sit at the console and use Ctrl-Alt-Fn to access various logs, and get a shell login using the alternate virtual consoles, but when I try this the Ctrl-Alt-Fn keystrokes are processed by the Hardy laptop and I acces its alternate virtual consoles instead of the domU''s alternate consoles. The only helpful comment I have received suggested considering chvt Ctrl-Alt-Fn is bound somehow to the command: chvt n Perhaps I can build a customized installer and modify these bindings. Any ideas on how to solve this problem? -- Drew Einhorn _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Anno domini 2008 drew einhorn scripsit: Hi!> I have a Ubuntu Hardy laptop. > With a ssh connection to a RHEL5 xen dom0. > Running cobbler/koan on the dom0 > Koan --virt --nogfx ... > starts a new domU on the xen box > and starts up the RHEL5 installer > the installer attempts to configure its network interface using DHCP and > gets stuck> If this was an install on a real physical hardware > I would sit at the console and use Ctrl-Alt-Fn to access various logs, > and get a shell login using the alternate virtual consoles,> but when I try this the Ctrl-Alt-Fn keystrokes are processed by the > Hardy laptop and I acces its alternate virtual consoles instead > of the domU''s alternate consoles.> The only helpful comment I have received suggested > considering chvt> Ctrl-Alt-Fn is bound somehow to the command: chvt n> Perhaps I can build a customized installer and modify these bindings.> Any ideas on how to solve this problem?Have you tried Alt-left/right or Ctrl-Alt-Left/Right? Ciao Max -- Follow the white penguin. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
drew einhorn wrote:> but when I try this the Ctrl-Alt-Fn keystrokes are processed by the > Hardy laptop and I acces its alternate virtual consoles instead > of the domU''s alternate consoles. > [snip] > > Any ideas on how to solve this problem?I used gtk-vnc-python which has an example script that can be used to send various key sequences to the vnc server. jch _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 26/07/2008 14:45, drew einhorn wrote:> If this was an install on a real physical hardware > I would sit at the console and use Ctrl-Alt-Fn to access various logs, > and get a shell login using the alternate virtual consoles, > > but when I try this the Ctrl-Alt-Fn keystrokes are processed by the > Hardy laptop and I acces its alternate virtual consoles instead > of the domU''s alternate consoles.Either I''m missing the point, or you''re barking up the wrong tree ... Isn''t installing without a graphical console more akin to installing over a serial console, i.e. you haven''t *got* multiple virtual consoles to switch between, just *the* console? Have you tried a GUI install with a VNC console instead? _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
It''s a little cumbersome, but F8 will open a menu on vncviewer where you can pick toggles for ctrl & alt. After turning those toggles on, you can switch between virtual consoles by just pressing the Fn keys. Except f8... which has to be chosen from the f8 menu... On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Andy Burns <lists.xensource.com@ adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:> On 26/07/2008 14:45, drew einhorn wrote: > > > If this was an install on a real physical hardware >> I would sit at the console and use Ctrl-Alt-Fn to access various logs, >> and get a shell login using the alternate virtual consoles, >> >> but when I try this the Ctrl-Alt-Fn keystrokes are processed by the >> Hardy laptop and I acces its alternate virtual consoles instead >> of the domU''s alternate consoles. >> > > Either I''m missing the point, or you''re barking up the wrong tree ... > > Isn''t installing without a graphical console more akin to installing over a > serial console, i.e. you haven''t *got* multiple virtual consoles to switch > between, just *the* console? > > Have you tried a GUI install with a VNC console instead? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 28/07/2008 15:49, Trolle Selander wrote:> It''s a little cumbersome, but F8 will open a menu on vncviewer where you > can pick toggles for ctrl & alt. After turning those toggles on, you can > switch between virtual consoles by just pressing the Fn keys. Except > f8... which has to be chosen from the f8 menu...But I think the OP is not using VNC at all, because he is using koan with --nogfx which I assume has a similar effect to using virt-install with --nographics, so it''s just a connection to xvc0. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users