[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#693969: virt-manager: Serial Console over SSH to XEN is not working (known bug in upstream with fix)

[Andreas Steinel]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.9.4-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

The packaged version in debian (testing or unstable) is not able to connect to
a serial console on a XEN host via SSH and reports the problem 'Cannot open a
device with no alias name'.

There has been a patch around for this problem which could be easily
incorporated into the Debian package. The Bug-report and also the patch
(commenting out 2 lines) is available
http://bugzillafiles.novell.org/attachment.cgi?id=506198

It would be great if you could fix this problem for wheezy.

Best,
Andreas



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2             3.2.5-1+build1
ii  librsvg2-common    2.36.1-1
ii  python             2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python-dbus        1.1.1-1
ii  python-glade2      2.24.0-3
ii  python-gnome2      2.28.1+dfsg-1
ii  python-gtk-vnc     0.5.0-3
ii  python-gtk2        2.24.0-3
ii  python-ipy         1:0.75-1
ii  python-libvirt     0.9.12-5
ii  python-support     1.0.15
ii  python-urlgrabber  3.9.1-4
ii  python-vte         1:0.28.2-5
ii  virtinst           0.600.3-2

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme         3.4.0-2
ii  libvirt-bin              0.9.12-5
ii  python-spice-client-gtk  0.12-5

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  gnome-keyring        3.4.1-5
pn  python-gnomekeyring  <none>
pn  python-guestfs       <none>
pn  ssh-askpass          <none>
ii  virt-viewer          0.5.3-1