Hi, I am trying to set up vmchannel between the host and guest os. However, "sudo virsh start vm1" always gave me this error: ************************************************************* error: Failed to start domain vm1 error: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/5 bind(unix:/tmp/foo): Permission denied chardev: opening backend "socket" failed ************************************************************* Related xml is: ************************************************************* <channel type='unix'> <source mode='bind' path='/tmp/foo'/> <target type='virtio' name='channel.port.0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> ************************************************************* I can succeed while I manually run the guest os by: ************************************************************* sudo kvm -device virtio-serial \ -chardev socket,path=/tmp/foo,server,nowait,id=foo \ -device virtserialport,chardev=foo,name=org.fedoraproject.port.0\ /path/to/vm1.img ************************************************************* I also noticed that libvirt is able to create socke /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/vm1.monitor every time. I can't win even I change the unix socket path to "/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/foo" Any information will be appreciated! Thanks, Will