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

Jorge Lucángeli Obes
2007-08-15T15:35:38Z

On 8/15/07, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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:
> > 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.

Thanks. I had reached more or less that conclusion after looking at
'src/qemu_driver.c', but it's good to have confirmation.