Re: a (bad) kvm story from a plain user

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:43:58AM -0300, Jorge Luc?ngeli Obes wrote:
> On 8/15/07, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:26:24PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 05:44 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > > Slohm Gadaburi wrote:
> > > > > How can I know if the qemu I ran took advantage of the kvm module ?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > No one mentioned my favorite: when kvm is in control, the title bar of
> > > > the guest console window changes to "QEMU/KVM".
> > > >
> > > > > I ran /usr/bin/qemu as I didn't have /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu like the HOWTO
> > > > > mentioned (as I didn't compiled the kvm bundle myself...).
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Well, the HOWTO assumes you did all the previous steps.  We should have
> > > > a HOWTO/Ubuntu for distro users (but really, Ubuntu should have a gui
> > > > for this).
> > >
> > > virt-manager isn't currently packaged for Ubuntu (even in Gutsy).  If
> > > there any Ubuntu devs out there, please consider packaging it!
> >
> > There are virt-manager packages for Debian so it shouldn't be hard to port
> > them.
> 
> Just today I was trying virt-manager and libvirt. I got this error
> when creating a VM:
> 
> Unable to complete install: 'virDomainCreateLinux() failed Cannot find
> QEMU binary /usr/bin/qemu: No such file or directory'

The KVM support in libvirt is just an extension to the generic QEMU
support. So you have to have a plain QEMU installed, as well as the
KVM-ified version. To avoid filename clashes it expects the KVM version
of QEMU to be named /usr/bin/qemu-kvm.

Regards,
Dan.
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