From 91f936897739d93aa9d1e10f3736f2a3f820cd71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:29:35 +0200 Subject: public_hurd_boxen/domu_console: How to deal with domU consoles. --- public_hurd_boxen/domu_console.mdwn | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 public_hurd_boxen/domu_console.mdwn (limited to 'public_hurd_boxen/domu_console.mdwn') diff --git a/public_hurd_boxen/domu_console.mdwn b/public_hurd_boxen/domu_console.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..56f6ac9c --- /dev/null +++ b/public_hurd_boxen/domu_console.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="domU console"]] + +To avoid any complications with people trying to use the same console at the +same time, please use this command for attaching to a domU's console: + + $ sudo screen -DRRS xen-console-[domU] xm console [domU] + +Otherwise, if one attaches to the same console twice, the second instance will +in fact forward input to the domU (possibly infering with what the person is +doing on the first instance), but the output won't be sent back to the second +instance. + +After having typed this once, Bash's `reverse-search-history` (`C-r`), followed +by typing in `console-flubber`, for example, will be enough to get access to +that machine's console. + +/!\ TODO: How does one get the environment variables `COLUMNS` and `LINES` set +properly when using `xm console`? This is relevant for everything using +`(n)curses` -- for interactive console applications. -- cgit v1.2.3