On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 04:13 -0600, Igor Serebryany wrote:
> Hey John,
>
> If I understand correctly, you are trying to get access to the
> character device after you've created the domain. The exact device
> is auto-assigned when the VM is created, but you can get the correct
> device from the domain XML after the domain is running.
>
> I use 'type=pty' in my domain definition XML. I then extract the
> device that was assigned to the domain using the following bit of
> python:
>
> import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree
> xml = etree.fromstring(myDomainObject.XMLDesc(0))
> tty = xml.find('devices').find('console').attrib['tty']
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> --Igor
>
Thanks Igor, that works perfectly.
best,
JP
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