Description of problem: Sometimes when I try to start one of my VMs, I get an error dialog saying "Error starting domain: internal error unable to start guest: qemu: could not open serial device 'pty': No child processes" and showing this traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 571, in run_domain vm.startup() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 664, in startup self.vm.create() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 293, in create if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: internal error unable to start guest: qemu: could not open serial device 'pty': No child processes I'm not sure where to file this, but I'll start with libvirt... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-common-0.11.0-3.fc12.x86_64 kernel-2.6.31.1-56.fc12.x86_64 libvirt-0.7.1-10.fc12.x86_64
Thanks for the report Does the /dev/pts in entry in /etc/fstab contain 'gid=5,mode=620' ? See bug #515521
Turns out that was the problem. Thanks! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 515521 ***