[libvirt-users] Invoking virsh console from Java

[Nagaraj Mandya]

Hi Eric,
  I did check the libvirt Java bindings, but I did not find any way to
access the console through the Java API. Is anybody aware of how this can
be done using the Java API?
--
Regards,
Nagaraj


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 05/15/2014 11:34 AM, Nagaraj Mandya wrote:
> > Hello,
> >   I have a Java application from which I am invoking the "virsh console"
> > command to access the console of a VM. I invoke the virsh command using
> > ProcessBuilder.start(). However, I am unable to communicate with the
> stdin
> > of the VMs console through the OutputStream of the Process object.
> >
> >   When I invoke "virsh console" from within Java, I see the following
> > messages on stderr:
> >
> > info : libvirt version: 0.9.8
> > error : vshRunConsole:318 : unable to get tty attributes: Inappropriate
> > ioctl for device
> >
> >   Does anybody know how I can workaround this? Thanks.
>
> Why not just directly use the Java bindings from libvirt-java to access
> the console directly from your Java program, instead of trying to spawn
> a third-party application to do it on your behalf?  Alas, I'm not
> familiar enough with the Java bindings to know how easy or hard this may
> be.
>
> --
> Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>
>
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