Re: [libvirt] [Xen-devel] [PATCH LIBVIRT] libxl: Recognise ARM architectures

On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 15:00 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 12:37 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:34:17PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > Currently virsh console fails with: > > > > Connected to domain libvirt-test > > > > Escape character is ^] > > > > error: internal error: cannot find character device <null> > > > That'll be because no <console> or <serial> device is > > > listed in your config above I expect. Also looks like > > > bogus error handling in the console API, not checking > > > for <null>. > > Thanks. I've just tried (inside <devices>...</...>): > > <console tty='/dev/pts/5'/> > > and > > <console type='pty'> > > <target port='0'/> > > </console> > > which I gleaned from http://libvirt.org/drvxen.html but neither seem to > > do the trick (and the first ones use of an explicit pts looks odd to > > me...). > > I learned yesterday this should be "serial" instead of "console", maybe > it fixes also your case. My understanding was that this was for HVM guests, whereas ARM has a PV console but I suppose I should try it anyway. I've got a flight to catch so it'll be a few days I expect.