Logging In to Xen Console After Receiving "xenconsole: Could not open tty" Error

Posted by Tres Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:55:00 GMT

So you try and log in to a domU and xen says it can’t open a tty?

[tres@calliope ~]$ sudo xm console xen-domu.vm
xenconsole: Could not open tty `/dev/pts/15': No such file or directory

This error normally happens when xenconsoled is no longer running. You can quickly verify by looking for the xenconsoled process:

[tres@calliope ~]$ ps auxwww | grep xenconsoled
[tres@calliope ~]$

If you don’t find it, just run

/etc/init.d/xend start

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