Opening two virsh console sessions to a VM guest scrambles both

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

When opening multiple virsh console sessions to the same domain, both the sessions are scrambled. Keyboard input seems to be send to both sessions.

This seems to suggest that only one virsh console session can be open at any time to the same domain.

Is that correct and expected behavior? And if so, should the virsh command then not deny any second session?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • libvirt prior to 0.9.10-21.el6

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