Package: libvirt-bin Version: 0.8.3-5+squeeze2 Severity: important Whenever a serial or parallel character device is attached to a kvm virtual machine and presented to the host as pty, libvirt reports chardev: opening backend "pty" failed
Starting the virtual machine manually using the command-line libvirt used according /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<domain>.log works fine. Using the backported libvirt yields a more verbose error message: chardev: opening backend "pty" failed: Permission denied Steps to reproduce: Add the following elements <serial type='pty'> <target port='0'/> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> to a libvirt qemu domain. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii libavahi-client3 0.6.27-2+squeeze1 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.27-2+squeeze1 Avahi common library ii libblkid1 2.17.2-9 block device id library ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcap-ng0 0.6.4-1 An alternate posix capabilities li ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-5 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libgnutls26 2.8.6-1+squeeze1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libnl1 1.1-6 library for dealing with netlink s ii libparted0debian1 2.3-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s ii libpciaccess0 0.12.0-1 Generic PCI access library for X ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii libsasl2-2 2.1.23.dfsg1-7 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra ii libudev0 164-3 libudev shared library ii libuuid1 2.17.2-9 Universally Unique ID library ii libvirt0 0.8.3-5+squeeze2 library for interfacing with diffe ii libxenstore3.0 4.0.1-4 Xenstore communications library fo ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze3 GNOME XML library ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends: ii bridge-utils 1.4-5 Utilities for configuring the Linu pn dnsmasq-base <none> (no description available) ii ebtables 2.0.9.2-2 Ethernet bridge frame table admini ii gawk 1:3.1.7.dfsg-5 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr ii iptables 1.4.8-3 administration tools for packet fi ii libxml2-utils 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze3 XML utilities ii netcat-openbsd 1.89-4 TCP/IP swiss army knife ii qemu-kvm 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze8 Full virtualization on x86 hardwar Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests: pn policykit-1 <none> (no description available) -- Configuration Files: /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
