On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 09:44:46AM -0400, Chris Evich wrote: > Hi, > > On Fedora 18 (libvirt 0.10.2.6-1) I'm trying to add a new serial device > to a KVM VM with: > > virsh attach-device foobar /tmp/serial.xml > > and I keep getting: > > error: Failed to attach device from /tmp/serial.xml > error: XML error: unknown device type > > with serial.xml: > > <serial type='file'> > <source path='/tmp/serialfile'/> > <target port='1'/> > </serial> > > Though I tried it w/o the <target> tag, with and without the --config > flag, and with and without the guest running. Assuming it's similar, I > tried and was successful in adding this device via virt-manager, though > it complains if the VM is running (which is fine). > > What am I doing wrong with the virsh attach-device command or XML? There is no support for hotplug of any character device (that covers serial, parallel, console, channnel elements in the XML) Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list