Problem with multiple hvc consoles via virtio-console

Amit Shah amit.shah at redhat.com
Fri Mar 26 16:01:09 EST 2010


On (Wed) Mar 24 2010 [21:04:08], Amit Shah wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When multiple hvc console ports are initialised and used via the
> virtio_console driver, I can interact with only the first console, the
> 2nd one doesn't respond.
> 
> If I call hvc_kick() even if hvc_poll() returns 0, the 2nd console
> becomes responsive.

Actually it's not that fancy: if I login to the first console (hvc0) and
then spawn another one (hvc1), I can't login into hvc1. If I spawn hvc1
before logging into hvc0, I can work with both.

		Amit


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