Oops, forgot to say. I'm running this from virt-manager and the exact text of the chardev error is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 814, in run_domain
vm.startup()
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1286, in startup
self._backend.create()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 333, in create
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: operation failed: failed to retrieve chardev info in qemu with 'info chardev'
Oops, forgot to say. I'm running this from virt-manager and the exact text of the chardev error is:
Traceback (most recent call last): virt-manager/ virtManager/ engine. py", line 814, in run_domain virt-manager/ virtManager/ domain. py", line 1286, in startup _backend. create( ) python2. 6/dist- packages/ libvirt. py", line 333, in create
File "/usr/share/
vm.startup()
File "/usr/share/
self.
File "/usr/lib/
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: operation failed: failed to retrieve chardev info in qemu with 'info chardev'
Dave