xm console not working (blank)
on some xen domUs I recently figured that the xm console didn't come
up. so investigating the issue I found out that you gotta set the
tty in the machine's config like this:
extra = 'xencons=tty1'
but still I get a blank screen instead of the login. solution is simple,
for systems still having an inittab (eg. debian) look for the following
line:
nano /etc/inittab
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
for systems which utilize upstart already (ubuntu) look for another file:
nano /etc/event.d/tty1
start on stopped rc2
start on stopped rc3
start on stopped rc4
start on stopped rc5
stop on runlevel 0
stop on runlevel 1
stop on runlevel 6
respawn
exec /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
makes the xm console work on all my machines again.