Jim Fehlig writes ("Re: libxl: cannot connect to PV console"):
Dario Faggioli wrote:
> Hey Jim,
>
> I'm on libvirt.git's trunk and I see the following:
> [xen@ghoul3 libvirt.git]$ sudo ./tools/virsh list
> Id Name State
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 3 debian_32 running
> 4 fedora20_64 running
>
> [xen@ghoul3 libvirt.git]$ sudo ./tools/virsh console debian_32
> Connected to domain debian_32
> Escape character is ^]
> error: internal error: cannot find character device (null)
>
> [xen@ghoul3 libvirt.git]$ sudo ./tools/virsh console fedora20_64
> Connected to domain fedora20_64
> Escape character is ^]
> error: internal error: cannot find character device (null)
>
Looking at libxlDomainOpenConsole() in src/libxl/libxl_driver.c, it
currently only supports a serial console. Do you have one defined in
these domains? E.g.
If this is the root cause, it's a pretty bad error message. Should I
or Dario take a look at the libvirt code to see if we can improve it ?
Ian.