Bug 683390

Summary: console hvc0 doesn't work for xenpv guest
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Andrew Jones <drjones>
Component: systemdAssignee: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: johannbg, lpoetter, metherid, mschmidt, notting, plautrba
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Description Andrew Jones 2011-03-09 10:37:06 UTC 
Installation can use console=hvc0 fine, but then booting the guest fails to use it. This message is output

Starting Serial Getty on hvc0 failed, see 'systemctl status serial-getty' for details.

Running the suggested command (done from an ssh connection to the guest, since the hvc0 console doesn't work)

serial-getty - Serial Getty on hvc0
	  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/serial-getty@.service)
	  Active: inactive (dead)
	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/serial-getty@.service/hvc0
Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2011-03-09 12:26:40 UTC 
Which version of systemd is this? If you steal systemd v20 from koji, does the problem go away?
Comment 2 Andrew Jones 2011-03-09 13:57:47 UTC 
It was

systemd-18-1.fc15.i686
systemd-units-18-1.fc15.i686

Solved with v20. Thanks!