[Fedora-xen] virt-manager gives "The console is currently unavailable" in FC6

[Ranganathan, Shobha]

I built Xen the way the README specifies. So although FC6 is 2.6.18, I
get it built against 2.6.16.29

So uname -a yields 2.6.16.29-xen. I have kernel-xen version as this

My xen version is xen-3.0.3-rc3 src rpm that comes with FC6.

I installed libvirt-0.1.7-2.i386.rpm (again this comes with FC6).

Virt-manager version is 0.2.3 from the About button of the GUI.

I always login as root in these machines.

When I tried it again this time , I still get same results.

Regards
Shobha Ranganathan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange at redhat.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:57 PM
To: Ranganathan, Shobha
Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] virt-manager gives "The console is currently
unavailable" in FC6

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:53:59AM -0800, Ranganathan, Shobha wrote:
> Yes there is qemu-dm process running.

Great.

> I see a line in "virsh dumpxml xen_FC5G1"
> <graphics type='vnc' port='5900'/>
> 
> From the log file of virt-manager I have
> 
> DEBUG Graphics vnc://localhost:5902
> ERROR Unable to activate console socket.error(111,'Connection
refused')

Ok, that's a very odd situation - virsh is saying port 5900 is where the
VNC server is (which sounds plausible), but virt-manager is trying to
connect to 5902 (which sounds like old, hardcoded port behaviour).

Could you tell me what version of kernel-xen, xen, libvirt &
virt-manager
RPMs you have installed in the host.

If you close the console window & re-open it, I assume it still fails
to connect again, with same error message in the logs ?

> In the /etc/xen/xen_FC5G1, I do have vnc=1 and vncunused=1.

Ok, that's good - so port 5900 is definitely the desired port.

Oh, are you running 'virsh' and 'virt-manager' as root, or a normal user
?

Regards,
Dan.
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