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What's the future of Xen in mainline?

What's the future of Xen in mainline?

Posted Feb 12, 2008 0:00 UTC (Tue) by larryr (guest, #4030)
In reply to: What's the future of Xen in mainline? by dhess
Parent article: Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices (Techthrob.com)

had to use GNU screen to manage the guests, since QEMU doesn't include the ability to attach/detach a session

It sort of does, via the -vnc option, which uses a VNC server as the console.

Larry@Riedel.org


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What's the future of Xen in mainline?

Posted Feb 12, 2008 21:58 UTC (Tue) by dhess (guest, #7827) [Link]

Sorry, you're right. I should have said that it doesn't include the ability to attach/detach a text-only session. Running VNC over SSH to a remote host to get console access is not much fun.

What's the future of Xen in mainline?

Posted Feb 14, 2008 3:59 UTC (Thu) by danpb (subscriber, #4831) [Link]

Indeed we've not hooked up the text based serial console in QEMU to 'virsh console' yet. It
has long been on the TODO list, but never quite made it to the top... VNC is the most common
access method for graphical console, or just SSH into the guest for text mode.

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