Ubuntu
xen-3.1 package

  1. Bug #144631
  2. Comment #57

Comment 57 for bug 144631

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Will Saxon (saxonww) wrote :

I just wanted to comment since I have been researching this for a couple of hours myself. Once I added

extra='xencons=tty'

to my domain.cfg files, I was able to use the console to monitor the bootup. I saw an immediate error about not being able to set the hardware clock, but the boot continued. I used "update-rc.d hwclock remove; update-rc.d hwclockfirst remove" to remove the clock set from the bootup and now I do not have an issue with that. I use ntp to set the clock anyway.

The reason I was trying to work with the console in the first place was due to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen-3.1/+bug/150805, which also has a workaround.

Note: while the xenconsole workaround was necessary, no hwclock or udev/network changes were necessary for my gutsy dom0/dapper domU. This entire process was only an issue with a gutsy dom0/domU setup.