[libvirt-users] serial console locking for a domain (concurrent access = garbled output)

[Eric Blake]

On 05/01/2012 12:51 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am seeing an issue in libvirt-0.9.4-23.el6_2.7.x86_64.rpm where my
> virsh console output for a domain gets garbled because I have
> virt-manager running and it is also trying to access the serial device
> for the guest domain. Basically there is concurrent serial access and
> half the text ends up on one end while the rest ends up on the other
> end.

Sounds like you are running into the issue that was fixed for 0.9.11
with this patch:

commit 4716138229ae47c5492c13a8622b779889560fd7
Author: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Oct 6 12:24:47 2011 +0200

    qemu: Add ability to abort existing console while creating new one

    This patch fixes console corruption, that happens if two concurrent
    sessions are opened for a single console on a domain. Result of this
    corruption was that each of the console streams recieved just a part
    of the data written to the pipe so every console rendered unusable.

and which is already present in the RHEL 6.3 beta build of libvirt,
thanks to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729940.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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