Thomas Mathiesen’s Blog


Centos:Xen cannot connect to console
September 28, 2009, 10:21 am
Filed under: Linux

I have seen a nasty issue with Xen; trying to connect to a vm guest console, and it spits out this error:

[root@server ~]# xm console myserver
xenconsole: Could not open tty `/dev/pts/4′: No such file or directory

The problem is fixed by running xenconsoled command :)

/Thomas



KVM USB passthrough
September 26, 2009, 5:28 pm
Filed under: Linux

This is just a note to self.. as I sometimes need to access USB devices on a KVM virtual guest. This time it’s actually for a freaking Scandisk USB device with something called U3. I need to use the USB stick to install easypeasy on my asus eeepc.. and I need to use the USB stick as a normal stick …
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