libvirt users - Jan 2011 - host to VM serial device configuration

Hi,

I'm trying to get a virtual serial device up and running between my  
host and virtual machine with a device name on the host.  I'm using  
libvirt 0.8.3 and qemu 0.13.0.  The challenge that I'm running into is  
that I'm able to get a serial device, but I cannot fix it to a pre- 
defined device name.  For example, I'm using the following in my VM's  
xml file:

<serial type='pty'>
	<source path='/dev/pts/19' />
	<target port='0' />
</serial>

As I said this works, but it doesn't set the host side to /dev/pts/ 
19.  Is there any way to do this?

thanks,
JP

? 2011?01?12? 23:11, John Paul Walters ??:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get a virtual serial device up and running between my
host
> and virtual machine with a device name on the host. I'm using libvirt
> 0.8.3 and qemu 0.13.0. The challenge that I'm running into is that
I'm
> able to get a serial device, but I cannot fix it to a pre-defined device
> name. For example, I'm using the following in my VM's xml file:
>
> <serial type='pty'>
> <source path='/dev/pts/19' />
> <target port='0' />
> </serial>
>
> As I said this works, but it doesn't set the host side to /dev/pts/19.
> Is there any way to do this?
I could reproduce it, trying to find out why.

Regards
Osier