virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11.x86_64 Choosing "run" from the menu results in this error sometimes. To run virt-manager I do "sudo virt-manager" since I can't seem to run it as my normal user. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 493, in run_domain vm.startup() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 573, in startup self.vm.create() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 287, in create if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: internal error unable to start guest: char device redirected to /dev/pts/6
Can you post /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<vmname>.log and ~/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log?
also, dcbw: see bug #524732 (polkit related) for what might be your "I can't seem to run it as my normal user" issue
No response to needinfo since 2009-09-30, closing
Turns out this was the fstab devpts thing. Apparently at install time anaconda wasn't setting correct options (gid=5,mode=620) which caused this.