[libvirt] Problem with pty

Dear all I have the following problem: -I'm running libvirt 0.9.11 on ubuntu 12.04; -when I try to create a VM with the following configuration: ... <serial type='pty'> <source path='/dev/pts/2'/> <target port='0'/> <alias name='serial0'/> </serial> <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/2'> <source path='/dev/pts/2'/> <target type='serial' port='0'/> <alias name='serial0'/> </console> ... I obtain this output: errore: Impossibile creare il dominio da domain_alpha_1.xml (error, impossible to create a domain from domain_alpha_1.xml) errore: errore interno Process exited while reading console log output: chardev: opening backend "pty" failed: Permission denied Does anyone know what's going wrong and ho to fix it? Thanks, Daniele Milani