Hi.
I'm running libvirt across a fleet of CentOS 7 desktops to provide VMs for
other operating systems, and they've been running fine for the last year,
through rebuilds, etc.
In the last week, PCs that have been rebuilt no longer start our VMs,
failing with the error:
error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor:
2016-09-15T10:15:12.839724Z qemu-kvm: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: Failed
to create chardev
Various sites list remounting /dev/pts to solve this, with the command:
mount -n -t devpts -o remount,mode=0620,gid=5 devpts /dev/pts
After this command, the mount entry for devpts changed:
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts
(rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,seclabel,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts
(rw,relatime,seclabel,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
However, the chardev error is still present.
The VM log in /var/log/libvirt/qemu shows:
2016-09-15 10:15:59.422+0000: starting up libvirt version: 1.2.17, package:
13.el7_2.5 (CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>,
2016-06-23-14:23:27, worker1.bsys.centos.org), qemu version: 1.5.3
(qemu-kvm-1.5.3-105.el7_2.7)
LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name centos6 -S -machine
pc-i440fx-rhel7.0.0,accel=kvm,usb=off -m 16384 -realtime mlock=off -smp
4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 901c9deb-1935-4cfe-b9b4-ea2221d10487
-no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev
socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-centos6/monitor.sock,server,nowait
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown
-boot menu=on,strict=on -device
piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive
file=/srv/vm/centos6-vda.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native
-device
virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=2
-netdev tap,fd=23,id=hostnet0 -device
e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:02:59:93,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3,bootindex=1
-chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device
isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga cirrus
-device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -msg timestamp=on
2016-09-15T10:15:59.508359Z qemu-kvm: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: Failed
to create chardev
2016-09-15 10:15:59.682+0000: shutting down
Anyone got any ideas? The only configuration change we have introduced in
the last few weeks is creating local user accounts and turning off NIS on
those boxes. SELinux is set to Permissive.
Thanks,
Iain Hallam.
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iain@nineworlds.net
http://www.iainhallam.com/
