On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 05:57:15PM -0400, Bob Tennent wrote: > >|> qemu-kvm has a -parallel option for attaching a parallel port to a > >|> guest. Does virt-manager support this? I'm running version > >|> 0.5.3-2.fc8. > >| > >|virt-manager currently does not have support for adding > >|parallel devices to guests, though this is supported at > >|the libvirt level. So, using virsh, you can add a parallel > >|device to an existing VM. Check out > >|http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsConsole for > >|xml examples. > > Thanks. I added > > <parallel type='pty'> > <source path='/dev/lp0' /> > <target port='0'/> > </parallel> > > to the <devices> section of the relevant file in /etc/libvirt/qemu. The > parallel "hardware" shows up in virt-manager, but with - as the source > path; running the domain yields > libvirtError: internal error Timed out while reading console startup > output > > Same result if I use <source path='/dev/pts/2' />. If I remove the > parallel "hardware" in the virt-manager, the guest starts up OK. Your XML syntax is wrong. You specified a 'pty' but then gave it a real path which doesn't make sense. You want type='dev' instead, and the <target> element is redundant - that's an output only element at this time. So, eg <parallel type='dev'> <source path='/dev/lp0' /> </parallel> Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
