[libvirt] virsh console giving Error

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On 12/12/2011 01:25 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Dňa 12.12.2011 8:05, Amit Tewari  wrote / napísal(a):
>> Hi,
>> I am using libvirt 0.9.7
> 
> This is a known regression in 0.9.7. It has been fixed by two commits upstream and is now
> included in 0.9.8 release. An upgrade should fix your problem.

Thanks for confirming Peter. I Was using 0.9.6 :)

Anyway, I picked the 0.9.8 libvirt SRPMs from ftp and quickly made the below koji scratch
builds for Fedora-16. if someone wants to try:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3578911

For x86_64 -- http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3578912
For i686 -- http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3578913

> 
> Peter
> 
> 
>>
>> -----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