The laptop that initially gave the error has been reinstalled .The output from an i386 machine is,
crw-rw----+ 1 root kvm 10, 232 Oct 3 09:36 /dev/kvm I got the above from a machine that's giving the same error as the originally reported one. This particular machine used to have working kvm when it was precise and the upgrade to quantal had some issues and there fore I had to re-install kvm in it. These are the other outputs in this machine kvm ok INFO: /dev/kvm exists KVM acceleration can be used and grep libvirt /etc/group also had the username in it thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1057024 Title: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 error when creating a vm To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1057024/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs