[libvirt] virsh console giving Error

[Amit Tewari]

Hi,
I am using libvirt 0.9.7

-----Original Message-----
From: Kashyap Chamarthy [mailto:kchamart at redhat.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 12:32 PM
To: Amit Tewari
Cc: libvir-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [libvirt] virsh console giving Error

On 12/12/2011 12:16 PM, Amit Tewari wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Following is my test environment
> 
> Host os= rhel6.1
> 
> Guest os=rhel6.1
> 
> Hypervisor - kvm
> 
>  
> 
> I have a created a guest machine using virt-install command. And it
has created guest
> successfully.
> 
> But now when I issue following command
> 
> #virsh console guest
> 
>  
> 
> Following error is displayed -
> 
>  
> 
> "Error: internal error character device (null) is not using a PTY"
> 
>  
> 
> Please let me no how can I avoid this error.

You have not specified what distribution, version of libvirt are you
using.

First, can you ensure if you have serial console set up in your guest by
checking if you
have the below directives in your guest kernel's command line options
(in /etc/grub.conf)

----
console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
----

If not, you can add it by running the below (ensure the guest is
shut-off):

# virt-edit guest /etc/grub.conf

'virt-edit' tool comes with libguestfs-tools-c package.

-- 
/kashyap

> 
>  
> 
> Regards
> 
> Amit Tewari
> 
> 

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