Re: [libvirt] Fwd: Re: need your help about virito vmchannel

FYI for the list. I haven't looked at this yet. Matt -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: need your help about virito vmchannel Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:00:02 +0530 From: Amit Shah <amit.shah(a)redhat.com&gt; To: Matthew Booth <mbooth(a)redhat.com&gt; CC: Jianlin Liu <jialiu(a)redhat.com&gt; On (Tue) May 04 2010 [13:18:30], Matthew Booth wrote: > On 04/05/10 12:48, Jianlin Liu wrote: >> Hi Matthew, >> >> I want to create a virtio vm channel in my guest. So I add the followiong to my guest xml file: >> <channel type='pty'> >> <target type='virtio' name='org.linux-kvm.port.0'/> >> </channel> > > Jianlin, > > While I wrote the libvirt->vmchannel glue, I'm not actually that > familiar with vmchannel itself. I've cc'd Amit, who hopefully might > recognise this problem and tell me how to fix it ;) > > Amit, > > Any idea what's going on here? Yes: >> Then I try to start the guest: >> # virsh start winxp >> error: Failed to start domain winxp >> error: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/4 >> char device redirected to /dev/pts/5 >> qemu-kvm: -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=0,vectors=0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5: Device 'virtio-serial-pci' could not be initialized With max_ports=0, the virtio-serial device doesn't get created and hence this error. Amit