Fedora xen - Nov 2006 - I got it work ---- virt-manager gives "The console is currentlyunavailable" in FC6

Thanks Dan for all the debug .
and Thanks Robert for sharing and providing the tip.

I did cleanup the host file and some more clean up in rc.d directories.

I did get the unmodified guest up in running.

It has always been helpful to ask Qs in this mailing list...

Regards
Shobha Ranganathan
"The significant challenges we face cannot be resolved at the same level
of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@redhat.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:51 PM
To: Ranganathan, Shobha
Cc: Robert Thiem; fedora-xen@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] virt-manager gives "The console is
currentlyunavailable" in FC6

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:45:17PM -0800, Ranganathan, Shobha
wrote:
> Anyway I''d suggest:
> - Check that you can ping localhost
> I could ping the localhost
> 
> - Check there''s a localhost entry in /etc/hosts associated with
> 127.0.0.1
> (and not with ::1)
> I have two entries one with 127.0.0.1 and ::1. I went ahead and
> commented out  ::1 entry
> - Run "netstat -antp" to see what ports programs are listening on
> I see various services on IP address of the local host 172.xx.xx.xx
and
> 127.0.0.1 and ::22 and ::1 and 0.0.0.0
> 
> I see sshd, cupsd and hpiod running with local address as ::22, ::1
and
> 0.0.0.0.
For fully-virt  / HVM guests you should see a ''qemu-dm''
process
listening
on the port associated with VNC (something around 5900+). If you don''t
then this is the primary problem to address - the qemu-dm*log file may
be useful. Also grabbing the command line for qemu-dm active process
should indicate what port it tried to start on. In my case:

# virsh dumpxml  rhel4i386 | grep graphics
    <graphics type=''vnc'' port=''5900''/>
# ps -axuww | grep qemu
root      4005  0.0  0.1  64616  5132 ?        Sl   20:05   0:00
/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm -d 2 -m 500 -boot c -serial pty -vcpus 4
-acpi -domain-name rhel4i386 -net
nic,vlan=1,macaddr=00:16:3e:39:f9:76,model=rtl8139 -net
tap,vlan=1,bridge=xenbr0 -vncunused -k en-us -vnclisten 127.0.0.1
# netstat -t -a -n -p | grep qemu
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5900              0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      4005/qemu-dm        
# virsh dumpxml  rhel4i386 | grep graphics
    <graphics type=''vnc'' port=''5900''/>


Regards,
Dan.
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