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Bug#396169: marked as done (linux-image-2.6.18-1-xen-686: Does not support PC serial ports)

Your message dated Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:18:14 +0100
with message-id <20100215191814.GN9624@baikonur.stro.at>
and subject line Re: Xen || vserver troubles
has caused the Debian Bug report #396169,
regarding linux-image-2.6.18-1-xen-686: Does not support PC serial ports
to be marked as done.

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Package: linux-image-2.6.18-1-xen-686
Severity: important

It seems that one serial port is supported for a console, but the other
serial port (two ports was a standard feature in PCs until very
recently) is not supported in any way.  If you want to use a modem, UPS,
or other device that connects to a serial port then Xen does not support
it.

I could live without serial port support in domU, but I believe that
it's a necessary feature in dom0!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

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the 2.6.18 linux images from Etch are no longer supported, thus closing
this bug report.  As both Xen or vserver stayed out of tree it is very
unlikely that they improved a lot since.

With modern hardware kvm or lxc (linux containers) are recommended.
if you still haven't upgraded to Lenny please notice that Etch has
no security support any more as of today:
http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100121


if you can reproduce said bugs with 2.6.32 linux images from
unstable please shout on said box and bug can be reopened:
reportbug -N <bugnr>

thank you for your report.

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