Re: Xen HOWTO mention of the Xen console

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

On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 12:25:50PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> The Xen HOWTO currently mentions "Xen's console" as follows:
> 
> 	On Xen's console, one can type the escape character (default ^A)
> 	three times to switch input from Xen to the dom0.
> 
> That's kind of backwards because (so far as I know) there's really never
> any opportunity, by default(*), to interact with Xen's console before it
> switches the console input over to the dom0.  Note also it's a "switch"
> character, not an "escape" character.

This is for the serial console. On the VGA console I don't think ^A
has any effect, even before the dom0 takes over the console (i.e
I don't think Xen can deal with a PS2 or USB keyboard)

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