Github user DaanHoogland commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1545#discussion_r63847694 --- Diff: plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java --- @@ -1978,11 +1978,16 @@ So if getMinSpeed() returns null we fall back to getSpeed(). final SerialDef serial = new SerialDef("pty", null, (short)0); devices.addDevice(serial); + /* Add a VirtIO channel for SystemVMs for communication and provisioning */ if (vmTO.getType() != VirtualMachine.Type.User) { - final VirtioSerialDef vserial = new VirtioSerialDef(vmTO.getName(), null); - devices.addDevice(vserial); + devices.addDevice(new ChannelDef(vmTO.getName() + ".vport", ChannelDef.ChannelType.UNIX, + "/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/" + vmTO.getName() + ".agent")); --- End diff -- these names and paths should not be hardcoded here.
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