Subject: Re: [vserver] getty in a vserver
From: Bruno <bonbons67@internet.lu>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:04:16 +0200

Hello Sylvain,

For me it works fine to start getty in my vserver guests.

What I did:
- copy the tty file(s) as you
    ...
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    4 2007-01-01 00:00 console -> tty1
    crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty  5, 0 2007-01-01 00:00 tty
    crw------- 1 root root 4, 7 2007-01-01 00:00 tty1
    ...
  You may note I called it tty1 inside of my guest, but due to
  the minor of the char device it's tty 7 for the kernel (tty 6 would
  have minor 6)
- configured my guest tu use plain init style
  (this is required to have an init process inside the guest that
  can start and respawn gettys)

This works fine (also take care inside of the guest to not have your local 
syslog, if any, to log to your only console, would at least not look good and 
be anoying when using that tty)

Regards,
Bruno


On Thursday 30 August 2007 18:51:52 Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have try to google a bit and don't find any way to launch a getty
> inside a vserver.
>
> I would like to have tty6 assigned to a vserver i am runnnig. My host is
> called "giga" and the guest "yocto". I would like to connect tty0-5 to
> getty inside giga and tty6 to getty inside yocto.
>
> I have copied the tty6 device node to the dev/ of yocto server (and i
> can see it inside the vserver). I have removed everything that try to
> use tty6 from giga. I am still not able to start a getty on this tty.
>
> Any idea on how to activate a getty inside a vserver ?
>
> Regards && thanks in advance
> Sylvain Le Gall