<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hello, I am trying to create a lucid guest VM with a vmchannel between the guest and the hypervisor. Details below: KERNEL: # uname -a Linux saurav-desktop 2.6.38-2-generic #29~lucid1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 7 13:35:14 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux QEMU: # /usr/bin/qemu --version QEMU emulator version 0.13.0, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard LIBVIRT: # /usr/sbin/libvirtd --version /usr/local/sbin/libvirtd (libvirt) 0.8.8 Below is a snippet of my libvirt xml file. =============================================================== <domain type='kvm' id='16'> <name>FinalTest</name> <uuid>212bc1f1-b4f7-1ed3-7dc3-2b4b82ab68d1</uuid> <memory>1048576</memory> <currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0.12'>hvm</type> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <pae/> </features> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>destroy</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0' max_ports='15' vectors='4'/> <channel type='pty'> <target type='virtio' name='org.linux-kvm.port.1'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0'/> </channel> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/> <source file='/home/user1/linux_installed/image.cow2'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <alias name='ide-disk0'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/> </disk> ================================================================ When i submit the xml file to virsh I get the following error: =============================================================== # virsh create vmTemplete-1.xml error: Failed to create domain from vmTemplete-1.xml error: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/3 char device redirected to /dev/pts/4 open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support kvm: -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=org.linux-kvm.port.1: virtio-serial-bus: Out-of-range port id specified, max. allowed: 0 kvm: -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=org.linux-kvm.port.1: Device 'virtserialport' could not be initialized =========================================================== What could be the problem ? Could any one please point to the correct direction with regard to this. Regards sl </td></tr></table>