Created attachment 968829 [details] /var/log/libvirt/qemu/BMS_AIR.log (the log of the VM) Description of problem: When I try to add parallel port to VM I'm getting the error: "qemu-kvm: -device isa-parallel,chardev=charparallel0,id=parallel0: 'isa-parallel' is not a valid device model name" and the VM does not start. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirtd --version libvirtd (libvirt) 1.1.1 How reproducible: adding /dev/parport0 as parallel port to the guest OS. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Show Virtual Hardware Details 2.Add Hardware 3.Parallel 4.Physical host character device (dev) 5.Path:/dev/parport0 6.start VM Actual results: Error starting domain: internal error: early end of file from monitor: possible problem: qemu-kvm: -device isa-parallel,chardev=charparallel0,id=parallel0: 'isa-parallel' is not a valid device model name Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 100, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 122, in tmpcb callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1220, in startup self._backend.create() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 698, in create if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: internal error: early end of file from monitor: possible problem: qemu-kvm: -device isa-parallel,chardev=charparallel0,id=parallel0: 'isa-parallel' is not a valid device model name Expected results: adding lpt1 to winxp VM. Additional info: Virtual Machine Manager 0.10.0 in CENTOS 7
The default qemu-kvm on centos 7 has parallel device support compiled out. Some info here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2014-November/msg00106.html