Bug 1016488

Summary:	Guest serial console doesn't work
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	20	CC:	berrange, crobinso, tadej.j, virt-maint
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Description Alexander Todorov 2013-10-08 09:06:02 UTC

Description of problem:

I performed a default install of Fedora-20-Beta-TC1 tree using the DVD ISO and virt-manager wizard. System boots fine using the graphical console. 

As per the test case:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Virt_Serial_Console


The serial console doesn't work at all: 

In VM details I can see a serial device has already been added. 

Trying View -> Text Consoles -> Serial 1 doens't give me a login prompt (GUI shows login prompt at the same time). 

Trying virsh console $guest yields:

# virsh console fedora20-2
Connected to domain fedora20-2
Escape character is ^]
error: operation failed: Active console session exists for this domain

^^^ No matter if I have switched in virt-manager back to the GUI or text console or if I close entirely the VM window which shows this guest system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libvirt-client-1.1.3-2.fc20.x86_64
virt-manager-0.10.0-4.git79196cdf.fc20.noarch


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See test case above.
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

This could be 2 different issues, I don't know yet.

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2013-10-08 12:19:11 UTC

Duping this to your qemu-ga bug, since they are likely the same root issue

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1016613 ***

Comment 2 Tadej Janež 2013-10-09 11:05:00 UTC

I have some additional information regarding the guest serial console:

If I manually add the Console Device via "Add Hardware" option (Device Type: Pseudo TTY (pty), Type: virtio), I get a working console in virt-manager, e.g. I can see the login prompt an log in.

However, executing 'virsh console fedora20' still doesn't work. I get the following output:
Connected to domain fedora20
Escape character is ^]

and I can't proceed, e.g. typing something in doesn't produce anything.