On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 02:08:53PM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
We could search for this line in /var/log/dmesg on the guest:
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
I don't know of any other way to detect the console device in Linux...
This seems like a reasonable suggestion. The worst that can happen is it fails to find this line and the console is not configured. You can use: @lines = $g->fgrep ("Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0", "/var/log/dmesg"); if (@lines >= 1) { ... } to test for this. Could you modify the patch? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/