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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:45:17PM -0800, Ranganathan, Shobha wrote:
> Anyway I'd suggest:
> - Check that you can ping localhost
> I could ping the localhost
> 
> - Check there's a localhost entry in /etc/hosts associated with
> 127.0.0.1
> (and not with ::1)
> I have two entries one with 127.0.0.1 and ::1. I went ahead and
> commented out  ::1 entry
> - Run "netstat -antp" to see what ports programs are listening on
> I see various services on IP address of the local host 172.xx.xx.xx and
> 127.0.0.1 and ::22 and ::1 and 0.0.0.0
> 
> I see sshd, cupsd and hpiod running with local address as ::22, ::1 and
> 0.0.0.0.

For fully-virt  / HVM guests you should see a 'qemu-dm' process listening
on the port associated with VNC (something around 5900+). If you don't
then this is the primary problem to address - the qemu-dm*log file may
be useful. Also grabbing the command line for qemu-dm active process
should indicate what port it tried to start on. In my case:

# virsh dumpxml  rhel4i386 | grep graphics
    <graphics type='vnc' port='5900'/>
# ps -axuww | grep qemu
root      4005  0.0  0.1  64616  5132 ?        Sl   20:05   0:00 /usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm -d 2 -m 500 -boot c -serial pty -vcpus 4 -acpi -domain-name rhel4i386 -net nic,vlan=1,macaddr=00:16:3e:39:f9:76,model=rtl8139 -net tap,vlan=1,bridge=xenbr0 -vncunused -k en-us -vnclisten 127.0.0.1
# netstat -t -a -n -p | grep qemu
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5900              0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      4005/qemu-dm        
# virsh dumpxml  rhel4i386 | grep graphics
    <graphics type='vnc' port='5900'/>


Regards,
Dan.
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