Serge, sorry for the late answer, I wasn't subscribed to this bug before, I'll answer more quickly in the future.
As for NFS - no NFS on this machine, and no console.log either. It seems I was confusingly brief in my comment, I wasn't replying to Mandar really, but to the original bug report. Adding some context... Ubuntu 11.10, running Xubuntu and disk encryption, quite standard otherwise. I encountered this bug when trying to install windows using the command virt-install --name winxp --ram 1024 --vcpus=1 --disk path=/dev/mapper /wdgreen-win1 --os-type=windows --os-variant=winxp --cdrom=/media/dumptemp/winxp_orig_sp2.img which failed very soon. Don't have the original error message anymore, but it was the "chardev: opening backend "pty" failed" one as far as I remember. I tried the things suggested in the comments of this bug with apparmor, but was unable to get rid of apparmor "DENIED" messages referring to libvirt. I was reluctant to simply reboot because according to some comments this makes the problem disappear (temporarily) without any other action, and I prefer to fix it for good. Running out of time, I finally booted with 'apparmor=0' which helped. I'll reboot without 'apparmor=0' to see if the problem reappears. I'm happy to try any other suggestions you might have to get rid of the apparmor error messages in case the problem reappears, now that I have some time to experiment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/632696 Title: libvirt won't start a VM with serial or console To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/632696/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
