We are trying to create RHEL6.1 container and having trouble getting a proper console to the container. I have used lxc containers in the past and lxc has a script (lxc-fedora) to setup a basic Fedora container. Is there something similar or docs with virtmgr ? We started out making a copy of the root fs and using that copy as the root for the container. I made a couple of tweaks to the container rootfs: 1. ensured that /dev/ptmx is a symlink to pts/ptmx 2. Added 'newinstance' option to the devpts mount in fstab The container xml file is attached. If devpts entry in container's fstab has the 'newinstance' option, I get a brief "domain test01 started" message on the stdout. When I run 'virsh consle test01', I only see a few messages --- Setting hostname node03: [ OK ] Setting up Logical Volume Management: No volume groups found [ OK ] Checking filesystems [ OK ] mount: can't find / in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ] Enabling local filesystem quotas: [ OK ] Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [ OK ] --- and then a hang wihtout a shell. At ths point sshd or any of the other services don't appear to be running. If I remove the 'newinstance' entry in fstab and run 'virsh start test01' the container starts up ok. I get all "console" messages on whichever is my current /dev/pts/0 ! At this point sshd and many other services are running and I can ssh in. Even in this case, though 'virsh console test01' shows the same _few_ messages as above and no login shell. Back to the newinstance case, by putting some debug messages in the container's /etc/rc.sysinit, I see that devpts is already mounted with newinstance. With lxc, in setup_pts(), we unmount devpts in the container and then mount with newinstance. I wonder what that sequence is with virtmgr. I double checked that /dev/ptmx in container is a symlink to pts/ptmx and that CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y. Appreciate any tips on how I can get access to the console of the RHEL6.1 container. Suka Suka