[libvirt] vshRunConsole:77 : unable to open tty

[Matthias Bolte]

2010/1/29 Ruben Kerkhof <ruben at rubenkerkhof.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm unable to open a serial console to a kvm virtual machine with virsh
> console:
>
> [root at phy003 ~]# virsh console f12
> Connected to domain f12
> Escape character is ^]
> 20:43:48.282: error : vshRunConsole:77 : unable to open tty /dev/pts/1 : No
> such file or directory
>
> If you look carefully to the message above, there's a space after /dev/pts/1
>
> I can also see this in the xml:
>
> [root at phy003 ~]# virsh dumpxml f12 > f12.xml
>
>
>    <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/1^M'>
>      <source path='/dev/pts/1^M'/>
>      <target port='0'/>
>    </console>
>    <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/1^M'>
>      <source path='/dev/pts/1^M'/>
>      <target port='0'/>
>    </console>
>
> I've run gdb over virsh, and this is what virDomainGetXMLDesc returns:
> <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/1\r'>
>
> I'm not sure if this has already been fixed, this is
> libvirt-0.7.5-3.fc12.x86_64 from the rawhide preview repo on F12, with
> qemu-kvm-0.12.2-4.fc12.x86_64
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Ruben Kerkhof
>

I think this was fixed after the 0.7.5 release by this commit

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=c0a9b6a5338e54b64a4a28415ffbdb6bcc2b38c5

Matthias