[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#612036: virt-manager: cannot use a local sdl window as a graphics option

[david b]

Package: virt-manager
Severity: important

1. I configured a kvm guest to use a local sdl window. 
2. I then tried to boot the vm 
3. this did not work - I got an error stating "libvirtError: operation failed: failed to retrieve chardev info in qemu with 'info chardev'"
4. I chowned my Xauthority file to be owned by my user and the libvirt group - (and chmoded it 640).
5. I tried to launch the vm again.
6. - I encountered this -->
"commandline read: virtio-blk-pci,b : Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 808, in run_domain
    vm.startup()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1296, in startup
    self._backend.create()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 333, in create
    if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char device redirected to /dev/pts/18
"
and the vm doesn't boot.
The /dev/pts/18 'file' has the following permissions:
crw--w---- 1 myuser tty 136, 18 Feb  5 12:06 /dev/pts/18


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash