Hi, When I execute virt-install --paravirt --nographics, the serial console isn't connected after the domain restarting. The attached patch adds to solve this problem. Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Itou <fj0873gn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Nobuhiro Itou. diff -r c5d674528d03 virtinst/Guest.py --- a/virtinst/Guest.py Fri Apr 13 14:52:04 2007 -0400 +++ b/virtinst/Guest.py Mon Apr 16 09:53:15 2007 +0900 @@ -710,6 +710,28 @@ class Guest(object): return self.conn.lookupByName(self.name) def connect_console(self, consolecb): + logging.debug("Restarted guest, looking to see if it is running") + # sleep in .25 second increments until either a) we get running + # domain ID or b) it's been 5 seconds. this is so that + # we can try to gracefully handle domain restarting failures + num = 0 + while num < (5 / .25): # 5 seconds, .25 second sleeps + try: + self.domain = self.conn.lookupByName(self.name) + if self.domain and self.domain.ID() != -1: + break + except libvirt.libvirtError, e: + logging.debug("No guest existing " + str(e)) + self.domain = None + pass + num += 1 + time.sleep(0.25) + + if self.domain is None: + raise RuntimeError, "Domain has not existed. You should be able to find more information in the logs" + elif self.domain.ID() == -1: + raise RuntimeError, "Domain has not run yet. You should be able to find more information in the logs" + child = None if consolecb: logging.debug("Launching console callback")