On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:10:53PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: You're not mentioning what version of libvirt you're using. This was added recently commit 9a0ac6d9c21b914f887d2a1e0051b5beffa81bd7 Author: Richard Weinberger <richard(a)nod.at&gt; Date: Tue Jul 9 11:05:14 2013 +0100 LXC: Create /dev/tty within a container Many applications use /dev/tty to read from stdin. e.g. zypper on openSUSE. Let's create this device node to unbreak those applications. As /dev/tty is a synonym for the current controlling terminal it cannot harm the host or any other containers. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard(a)nod.at&gt; Available in release 1.1.1 or later. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|