Any news on this? I've hit the same thing Ubuntu server 12.04 Attempting to create socket connection between VM host and a pre-existing guest. Following this guide http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Qemu_guest_agent
New channel defined in VM <channel type='unix'> <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/app-dev-tony.agent'/> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> </channel> When starting VM, get the following error: Failed to start domain app-dev-tony error: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/3 bind(unix:/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/app-dev-tony.agent): Permission denied chardev: opening backend "socket" failed: Permission denied -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1015154 Title: virt-aa-helper refuses to create unix socket for a serial port To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1015154/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
