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KVM failed to start with error: internal error unable to start guest: chardev: opening backend “pty” failed

By Emanuelis, on August 25th, 2010

This is just a quick workaround.

After restarting my Ubuntu 10.04 server KVM virtual machines didn’t start. Tried manually:

virsh # start saturn error: Failed to start domain saturn error: internal error unable to start guest: chardev: opening backend “pty” failed

I needed a fast solution. Very fast googling and this gave me a . . . → Read More: KVM failed to start with error: internal error unable to start guest: chardev: opening backend “pty” failed

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Virtual Windows7 LSI53C895A SCSI Drivers on Qemu (KVM)

By Emanuelis, on July 23rd, 2010

Today I installed Windows 7 to a virtual machine. I use Linux Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx as a host and qemu/KVM for virtualization. Windows was installed to qcow2 image. Later I needed to add a whole physical SATA disk. So I added:

<disk type=’block’ device=’disk’> <source dev=’/dev/sdb’/> <target dev=’hdb’ bus=’scsi’/> </disk>

(dont use bus=’ide’ . . . → Read More: Virtual Windows7 LSI53C895A SCSI Drivers on Qemu (KVM)

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