[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#507650: minicom works, virsh console does not work over qemu+ssh

[Guido Günther]

retitle 507650 "virsh console <dom> should work for remote connections"
severity 507650 wishlist 

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:44:23PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> Even though virsh console now works locally, doing the same via
> qemu+ssh from a remote system exhibits exactly the same behaviour
> when I try to connect to it via qemu+ssh.
> 
> It seems that virsh tries to open the *local* /dev/pts/*, which is
> a little suboptimal. :)
"virsh console" is currently strictly local, it simply opens the pty
specified in the XML config. It also assumes you have the permission to
access the device (so while you can manage the vm as non root you might
to be root to read the serial console). Ideally this would be routed to
libvirtd itself for permission checking and remote console forwarding.
Cheers,
 -- Guido
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