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.
Thanks,
Ian.