<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>hi Mr Rich</div><div>As you recommended, I switched to Fedora 16.</div><div>I also built a guest machine with Fedora 16 Mini version.</div><div>Inside the guest I installed <span style="font-weight: bold;">libguestfs-live-service</span> package but I failed to start the guestfsd daemon :</div><div><br></div><div><span class="tab"> </span>[root@Fedora16 ~]# guestfsd -vr<br><span class="tab"> </span>verbose daemon enabled<br><span class="tab"> </span>linux commmand line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686.PAE root=/dev/mapper/vg_fedora16-lv_root <span class="tab"> </span>ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE=us quiet rd.lvm.lv=vg_fedora16/lv_root rhgb <span class="tab"> </span><span class="tab"> </span><span class="tab"> </span>rd.lvm.lv=vg_fedora16/lv_swap rd.luks=0 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8<br><br><br><span class="tab"> </span>Failed to connect to virtio-serial channel.<br><br><span class="tab"> </span>This is a fatal error and the appliance will now exit.<br><br><span class="tab"> </span>Usually this error is caused by either QEMU or the appliance<br><span class="tab"> </span>kernel not supporting the vmchannel method that the<br><span class="tab"> </span>libguestfs library chose to use. Please run<br><span class="tab"> </span>'libguestfs-test-tool' and provide the complete, unedited<br><span class="tab"> </span>output to the libguestfs developers, either in a bug report<br><span class="tab"> </span>or on the libguestfs redhat com mailing list.<br><br><span class="tab"> </span>/dev/virtio-ports/org.libguestfs.channel.0: No such file or directory</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Moreover, I managed VMs with virt-manager, and I tried to edit the XML file of the guest from the path<br></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;">/etc/libvirt/qemu/FedoraMini16.xml</span> (FedoraMini16 is the name of the guest), here is the content of the xml file</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><domain type='kvm'><br> <name>FedoraMini16</name><br> <uuid>9d33d233-cedc-fd7c-658e-578358b7f7cf</uuid><br> <memory>1048576</memory><br> <currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory><br> <vcpu>1</vcpu><br> <os><br> <type arch='i686' machine='pc-0.14'>hvm</type><br> <boot dev='hd'/><br> </os><br> <features><br> <acpi/><br> <apic/><br> <pae/><br> </features><br> <clock offset='utc'/><br> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff><br> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot><br> <on_crash>restart</on_crash><br> <devices><br> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator><br> <disk type='file' device='disk'><br> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/><br> <source file='/home/feeliwood/VMs/Fedora16Mini/Fedora16Mini.qcow2'/><br> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/><br> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/><br> </disk><br> <interface type='network'><br> <mac address='52:54:00:ae:47:e7'/><br> <source network='default'/><br> <model type='virtio'/><br> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/><br> </interface><br> <serial type='pty'><br> <target port='0'/><br> </serial><br> <console type='pty'><br> <target type='serial' port='0'/><br> </console><br> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'/><br> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/><br> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes'/><br> <sound model='ich6'><br> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/><br> </sound><br> <video><br> <model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/><br> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/><br> </video><br> <memballoon model='virtio'><br> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/><br> </memballoon></div><pre style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(128, 255, 0);"><b><font><channel</font></b> type='unix'<b>></b> <b><source</b> mode='bind' path=<font>'/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">FedoraMini16</span>.libguestfs'</font> <b>/></b> <b><target</b> type='virtio' name='org.libguestfs.channel.0' <b>/></b> <b></channel></b> </devices><br></pre><div></domain><br><br></div><div><br></div><div>but whenever I restart the guest with virt-manager, the clause that I added was deleted.</div><div>could you help me please !!!</div><div>thank you<br></div><div><br></div><div></div></div></body></html>