[libvirt-users] how to list and kill existing console sessions to VMs?

[Francesco Romani]

Hi everyone,

If a VM is configured to have a console attached to it, like using

http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementCharConsole

Libvirt offers access to VM serial console's using the virDomainOpenConsole API[1]
However, I didn't find a way to
1. list the existing connections to the console
2. kill an existing connection - without reconnecting using VIR_DOMAIN_CONSOLE_FORCE[2]

Am I missing something? How can I do that?

Rationale for my request
oVirt [3] offers a management interface for VMs, and we have recently integrated user-friandly
VM serial console access [4] in the system; in the future release we want to enhance the administation
capabilities allowing to check existing connections and to terminate them (maybe because it got stuck).

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[1] http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt-domain.html#virDomainOpenConsole
[2] http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt-domain.html#VIR_DOMAIN_CONSOLE_FORCE
[4] http://www.ovirt.org/
[5] https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/engine/serial-console/ et. al.

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Francesco Romani
RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
Phone: 8261328
IRC: fromani