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Re: [uml-user] getting pts console back after master fd closed: msg#00288

Subject: Re: [uml-user] getting pts console back after master fd closed
s-uml@xxxxxxxxx said:
> If you boot UML (any released version) with con=pts (or variants),
> attach something like screen to the master end of the pts (/dev/pts/X)
> to view the console, and then quit that application (or have it close /
> dev/pts/X), that pseudo tty will go away and you won't be able access
> the console anymore.

If you read dmesg, it will tell you what device it got when it reopened the
terminal.  That should also be available through mconsole.

> Also, mconsole requests (such as 'config con0', 'remove con0', and
> 'reboot') never get a response (but the UML isn't hung).  

That's a bug.  That's the real way to do this.

                                Jeff



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