Re: Xen and Windows 2003 HVM

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:59:41PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 12:29 Uhr +0200 27.06.2008, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >Looks quite similar. I wonder if the error about vncpasswd in your
> >case can't cause it to switch to some other kind of output ...
> >
> >Also note that I almost never connect to the vnc console; I use rdesktop.
> 
> I don't use vnc, I am using rdesktop like you. I have twiddled the 
> vnc options in the meantime (is there a complete, up-to-date list of 
> DomU config file options available, preferably with options? The best 
> I came across is at 
> <http://opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/docs/HVMdomains.htm>), but 
> without getting rid of the "vnc passwd" message.
> 
> I kind of found the reason for HVM verbosity in the meantime, though: 
> I had started the HVM DomU from an xterm after unsetting DISPLAY, 
> because of the annoyingly slow console that comes up otherwise. Turns 
> out when I let the windows DomU have its console, it logs half a 
> KByte only. Do you know of any way to get rid of the console window 
> without terminating the DomU?

No. I think the only way to run a HVM domU "headless" is to configure
it do use a vnc console.

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