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Please use Reply-All when responding on mailing lists. That way the mailing list stays CCed and others can contribute to the discussion. On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:08 AM, bala suru <balaq...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This is what I got when I run the "ps aux | grep qemu" >> root 4748 3.1 0.6 122208 25032 ? Sl 11:52 5:13 >> /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-0.12 -enable-kvm -m 64 -smp 1 -name one-26 -uuid >> 16025c13-421f-143c-563b-07661fa59fe3 -nographic -chardev >> socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/one-26.monitor,server,nowait >> -monitor chardev:monitor -no-acpi -boot c -drive >> file=/srv/cloud/one/var//26/images/disk.0,if=ide,index=0,boot=on,format=raw >> -net nic,macaddr=02:00:c0:a8:7a:07,vlan=0,name=nic.0 -net >> tap,fd=29,vlan=0,name=tap.0 -serial none -parallel none -usb >> oneadmin 8137 0.0 0.0 3324 788 pts/1 S+ 14:36 0:00 grep qemu >> >> Still I have not understood that "Normally the emulated serial port can be >> redirected to your current >> terminal by launching qemu with "-serial stdio" How to make this through >> qemu . > > Thanks for posting the ps output. The reason why your serial is not > working is because libvirt is starting QEMU with "-serial none". That > means your virtual machine does not have an emulated serial port. > > You can fix this from virt-manager by editing the virtual machine > Details | Add Hardware | Serial and setting Device Type to Pseudo TTY > (pty). Then it should be possible to view the serial console while > the VM is running. > > If you want to use virsh instead of virt-manager, check for the domain > XML syntax here: > http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsConsole > > Stefan >