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<p class="MsoNormal">Let me explain our scenario:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We need to provide multiple console options so that from Host, user can login into the KVM guest using different console.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Environment - Fedora 17 (Host), Fedora 17 (Guest)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Libvirt version installed - 0.9.11<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Host, we have edit the guest XMl file and added for the multiple virtio console entry:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><console type='pty'><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <target type='virtio'/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></console><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><console type='pty'><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <target type='virtio'/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></console><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are able to connect to guest via serial console device. works fine.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#virsh console guest<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are unable to connect to guest via virtio console. Not working.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#virsh console --devname console1 guest<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We login using the serial console into guest and check the lsmod command, So the virtio console driver module is not loaded.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Also the getty process is not running for different virtio console devices.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So i manually load the virtio console (virtio_console.ko) module -> Even then i am unable to login using the virtio console.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the guest, /dev/hvc[0-7] is present.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pls tell us whether we are missing any configuration or settings on Host/Guest side.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pankaj Rawat<o:p></o:p></p>
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