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extra step to use xm console
Submitted by BobEdwards (registered user) on Tue, 2008-03-25 02:22.
One more step required to use the xm console facility with versions of xen-hypervisor etc.
packages circa March 2008: need to add this to /etc/xen/server.cfg:
 
 extra = 'xencons=tty'
 
This passes a kernel command line option that causes the Xen console to work with the
xm console command (as described in this most excellent document).
 
Otherwise the Xen guest console appears to go to a virtual framebuffer (vfb) and this document
does not discuss how to view that (probably needs a GUI environment). 
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