[PLUG] UML command line for console on a remote box

[Derek Loree]

On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 13:19, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "Stafford" == Stafford A Rau <srau at rauhaus.org> writes:
> 
> Stafford> I had the same problem, and figured out that my uml root_fs
> Stafford> inittab was trying to spawn gettys on ttys that didn't
> Stafford> exist. You can confirm that by loopback mounting your
> Stafford> root_fs on your host machine, something like:
> 
> Stafford> mount -o loop /usr/local/uml/root_fs /mnt
> 
> Yeah, that's what I did to "fix" it.  In my case, I just commented out
> all the ttys and made sshd work instead.

You can also override this with command line parameters when you start
the uml, I use something like this to start the file "root_fs":

linux eth0=tuntap,,,192.168.0.50 con=port:9000 con1=tty:/dev/tty11 con0=tty:/dev/tty12

which directs the boot message stuff to tty12 (<ctrl>+<alt>+<F12>) on
the host, first console to tty11 (<ctrl>+<alt>+<F11>), and the rest
redirected to port 9000 on the host.  To login, just "telnet hostname
9000", even if the tuntap network isn't working.

HTH,

Derek Loree