On 25.09.2013 19:17, Chunduru Venkata, Ravi wrote: > Hi All, > My intent is to make virtio unix channel work. I could configure the > XML and launch VM and could see the port in /dev/virtio-ports > > <channel type='unix'> > <source mode='bind' path='/tmp/appl_port'/> > <target type='virtio' name='appl_port'/> > <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> > </channel> > > When I see on the host, the unix socket is already binded and is in > listening state. > > echo "test this" > /tmp/appl_port > bash: /tmp/appl_port: No such device or address Try this: echo "test this" | socat - UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/appl_port You can't write to socket files the way you write to normal files. Cheers, Cristian Ciupitu _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users