[et-mgmt-tools] -parallel supported?

[Bob Tennent]

Thanks for the documentation reference.

 >|> In any case, crashing on an incorrect type argument suggests a
 >|
 >|Well, nothing should be crashing :) What version of libvirt are
 >|you using? I'll try to reproduce.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2008-September/msg00061.html

 |>I added
 |>
 |>    <parallel type='pty'>
 |>      <source path='/dev/lp0' />
 |>      <target port='0'/>
 |>    </parallel>
 |>
 |>to the <devices> section of the relevant file in /etc/libvirt/qemu. The
 |>parallel "hardware" shows up in virt-manager, but with - as the source
 |>path; running the domain yields
 |>
 |>  Traceback (most recent call last):
 |>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 531,
 |>    in run_domain
 |>      vm.startup()
 |>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 380,
 |>    in startup
 |>      self.vm.create()
 |>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 262,
 |>    in create
 |>      if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed',
 |>      dom=self)
 |>  libvirtError: internal error Timed out while reading console startup
 |>  output
 |>
 |>Same result if I use <source path='/dev/pts/2' />. If I remove the
 |>parallel "hardware" in the virt-manager, the guest starts up OK.
 |>
 |>I'm now running
 |>
 |>libvirt-0.4.5-2.fc8
 |>virt-manager-0.6.0-1.fc8
 |>
 |>on the host.

Bob T.