"virsh console" on macOS cannot attach to a domain and it doesn't matter if it's local or remote domain: $ ~ virsh console vm Connected to domain vm Escape character is ^] error: internal error: unable to wait on console condition The error comes from pthread_cond_wait that fails with EINVAL. The mutex in the parent is not initialized with pthread_mutex_init and it results in silent failure of pthead_mutex_lock and the attach failure. Fixes: 98361cc3b95 ("tools: console: make console virLockableObject") Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov(a)yadro.com&gt; --- tools/virsh-console.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/virsh-console.c b/tools/virsh-console.c index 826a4afcb2..e16f841e57 100644 --- a/tools/virsh-console.c +++ b/tools/virsh-console.c @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ virConsoleNew(void) if (virConsoleInitialize() < 0) return NULL; - if (!(con = virObjectNew(virConsoleClass))) + if (!(con = virObjectLockableNew(virConsoleClass))) return NULL; if (virCondInit(&con->cond) < 0) { -- 2.20.1 (Apple Git-117)