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QEMU quit during console startup bind() failed

To get more Google juice to the problem. If you are trying qemu or libvirt or kvm or virt-manager and when you are starting up your second guest you see a message such like this:


QEMU quit during console startup
bind() failed

Then two of your guests have the same port set for their VNC devices. Change the port in the VNC section to something that is free. A more specific erro would have save a half an hour of Googling.

This was written by aigarius. Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2009, at 18:10. Filed under Debian-planet, hack, linux, software. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.
 

4 Comments

  1. Frank Lin Piat wrote:

    What is the bug number?

    P.S. I don’t understand why require an email address to post a comment!

    Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 20:10 | Permalink
  2. rata wrote:

    More specific error ? That is the typical “bind error”
    If you google for “bind() failed” that’s the first match, “address already in use”

    Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 23:10 | Permalink
  3. Jon wrote:

    Google juice good, a patch even better!

    Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 00:10 | Permalink
  4. sinical wrote:

    Change the port number to -1 then it just auto assigns the port on vm startup

    Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 08:10 | Permalink

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