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

[Laurent Flesch]

Hi,

After a new check, it looks like I have exactly the same problem than your
with the same logs.
I found no solution for the moment as making a new FC6 installation.

Best Regards

2006/11/14, Ranganathan, Shobha <shobha.ranganathan at intel.com>:
>
> Yes there is qemu-dm process running.
>
> 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')
>
> In the /etc/xen/xen_FC5G1, I do have vnc=1 and vncunused=1.
>
> Regards
> Shobha Ranganathan
> "The significant challenges we face cannot be resolved at the same level
> of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange at redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 8:04 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 Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:03:17PM -0800, Ranganathan, Shobha wrote:
> > I had a typo in my previous message.
> >
> > I see no errors in xend.log and xend-debug.log.
>
> Ok, that's good - can you see if there is a qemu-dm process running,
> eg
>
>   ps -auxfww | grep qemu-dm
>
> > But I do have qemu*log messages. For my last problem, I only see the
> > following
> > Domid: 2
> > Shared page at pfn:ffff, mfn:34cd5
> > Buffered io page at pfn:fffd, mfn:34cd7
>
> Looks reasonable. Can you see if there is a '<graphics>' block
> in the XML  when you run
>
>   'virsh dumpxml  <domain name>'
>
> For the domain that you failed to get a console on. Also make sure that
> in the /etc/xen/<domain name> there is a 'vnc=1' config option. Finally,
> take a look at /root/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log to see if there's
> any errors reported.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange at redhat.com]
> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 5:24 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 Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:08:48PM -0800, Ranganathan, Shobha wrote:
> > > I am trying to install unmodified guest FC5 in host Os FC6.
> > >
> > > I am using virt-manager and upon gathering all information, when I
> > click
> > > finish, the GUI shows me "The console is currently unavailable".
> >
> > This basically means that virt-manager was unable to successfully
> > connect
> > to the VNC server which exports the guest framebuffer / console. Since
> > you say this is with fully virt, it probably means that the qemu-dm
> > process
> > failed to startup correctly - since VNC itself rarely fails I imagine
> > some
> > other bit of the guest config broke - network / disk setup being most
> > likely
> >
> > >
> > > What is wrong ? xm list shows the guest as blocked. I see error
> > messages
> > > in xend-debug.log and xend.log
> >
> > What are the errors you see - they may well help diagnose the problem
> > you are encountering ? Also check for /var/log/xen/qemu-dm*.log for
> > info about the fully-virt device model startup
>
> Regards,
> Dan.
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