On Mon January 9 2006 15:49, Bruno wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:01, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Bruno wrote:
> > > I would like to assign a virtual console to one or more vservers running
> > > on my box.
> > >
> > > e.g.
> > > vc0 - vc6 for host system
> > > vc7 for first vserver
> > > vc8 for second vserver
> > > none for third vserver
> > > ...
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Is this possible?
> >
> > You need the console device file in the vserver dev directory, and you
> > need to tweak the vserver inittab.
>
> This worked.
>
> For my example I will let the guest start on tty8 and spawn gettys on tty8 and
> tty9.
>
> Steps:
> - create /dev/tty8 (major 4, minor 8)
> - create /dev/tty9 (major 4, minor 9)
> - create /dev/console (major 4, minor 8)
>
A bit obscure unless one recalls that the kernel uses major-minor
numbers rather than names.
Could not the same thing be done with a sym-link?
ln -s /dev/tty8 console
That would be a little more obvious when you listed the /dev/*
at some later date.
Mike
> - add "c8:2345:respawn:sbin/getty 38400 tty8 linux" to inittab
> - add "c9:2345:respawn:sbin/getty 38400 tty9 linux" to inittab
>
> Then start/restart the guest and output appears as expected.
>
> Guest is configured using init style "plain"
>
> Bruno
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