Because of some crazy backward compatibility, console device is in some cases just an alias to a serial device. This means, in the process of generating XML description of a domain, all the interesting info is taken from corresponding serial device, if that's the case. Including the device alias. That means, we produce: <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/20'> ... <alias name='serial0'/> </console> (notice the assigned alias) Maybe this is okay, maybe its wrong either. Anyway, later, when libvirtd restarts, and we parse the state XML file, we read the wrong alias back. Hence, the internal representation is different to the state it was in prior the libvirtd restart. --- src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c index 8d79066..96d88ec 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c @@ -804,6 +804,34 @@ qemuDomainDeviceDefPostParse(virDomainDeviceDefPtr dev, dev->data.chr->source.data.nix.listen = true; } + /* For some really crazy back compat in virDomainDefFormatInternal we must + * restore the original console alias. For hvm domains, we are formatting + * a dummy console device (based on a serial device which it refers to) + * instead of the original one. That means the device aliases in memory + * and in the formatted XML are not in sync. While in memory we still have + * 'consoleN', in the formatted XML we have 'serialN'. */ + if (dev->type == VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_CHR && + dev->data.chr->deviceType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_CONSOLE && + dev->data.chr->targetType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_CONSOLE_TARGET_TYPE_SERIAL && + STREQ(def->os.type, "hvm")) { + int id; + char *alias = dev->data.chr->info.alias; + const char *serial_alias = "serial"; + + if (alias && STRPREFIX(alias, serial_alias)) { + alias += strlen(serial_alias); + + if (virStrToLong_i(alias, NULL, 10, &id) < 0) + goto cleanup; + + VIR_FREE(dev->data.chr->info.alias); + if (virAsprintf(&dev->data.chr->info.alias, "console%d", id) < 0) { + virReportOOMError(); + goto cleanup; + } + } + } + ret = 0; cleanup: