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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve been running oVirt 4.0.x for a while now and upgraded the engine and hosts to 4.1. Sometimes, on both 4.0 and 4.1, trying to run the “hosted-engine –console” command gives the following results:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The engine VM is running on this host<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Connected to domain HostedEngine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Escape character is ^]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">error: internal error: cannot find character device <null><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Once this starts occurring, it never works again.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When this happens I note that the hvc0 device does not exist in /dev and therefore there is no getty process running for that device. I notice that the “Enable VirtIO serial console” box is not checked on the hosted engine VM but when I
check it and click OK it’s unchecked again when I open up the edit window again.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">How do I get console control back from my oVirt hosts?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1E47A4">Sandy Berger</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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