Description of problem: create a guest 'f17' with virt-manager, then edit with virsh edit f17, and add the following into the xml file. <channel type='tcp'> <source mode='connect' host='127.0.0.1' service='6080'/> <target type='virtio' name='org.fedoraproject.anaconda.log.0'/> </channel> after save it and open the guest xml file, it does not exist. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.9.6 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a guest 2. edit with 'virsh edit <machine name>' 3. save the edit and exit 4. nothing changed Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I updated my system and tried again today, it works now with the same libvirt version 0.9.6. So I will close it as it it not a bug.