Re: [libvirt-users] host to VM serial device configuration

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 04:13 -0600, Igor Serebryany wrote:

Hey John,

If I understand correctly, you are trying to get access to the character device after you've created the domain. The exact device is auto-assigned when the VM is created, but you can get the correct device from the domain XML after the domain is running.

I use 'type=pty' in my domain definition XML. I then extract the device that was assigned to the domain using the following bit of python:

import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree xml = etree.fromstring(myDomainObject.XMLDesc(0)) tty = xml.find('devices').find('console').attrib['tty']

Hope this helps!

--Igor

Thanks Igor, that works perfectly. best, JP