[CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 Xen 4.12 libvirt/virt-manager wrong path for qemu-system-i386

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Sun May 5 11:26:31 UTC 2019


On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 02:23:22PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While testing Virt-SIG Xen 4.12 rpms on CentOS7 I noticed the following problem with libvirt/virt-manager when manually installing a new HVM guest from virt-manager GUI.. basicly the VM installation won't start, because libvirt/virt-manager is not able to start the VM, due to "missing" qemu-system-i386 binary:
> 
> Unable to complete install: 'unsupported configuration: emulator '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386' not found'
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 89, in cb_wrapper
>     callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 2553, in _do_async_install
>     guest.start_install(meter=meter)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 498, in start_install
>     doboot, transient)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 434, in _create_guest
>     domain = self.conn.createXML(install_xml or final_xml, 0)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 3725, in createXML
>     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed', conn=self)
> libvirtError: unsupported configuration: emulator '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386' not found
> 
> 
> Quick'n'dirty fix is to create a symlink:
> 
> 	ln -s /usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386 /usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386
> 
> .. after creating that symlink the VM can be started just fine and works OK.
> 
> We need to fix that default directory path for qemu-system-i386 to be correct out-of-the-box..
> 

Oh, I forgot to paste the rpm versions I have:

libvirt-daemon-config-network-4.10.0-3.xen412.el7.x86_64
libvirt-libs-4.10.0-3.xen412.el7.x86_64
libvirt-python-4.5.0-1.el7.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-4.10.0-3.xen412.el7.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-network-4.10.0-3.xen412.el7.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-4.10.0-3.xen412.el7.x86_64
libvirt-bash-completion-4.10.0-3.xen412.el7.x86_64
libvirt-client-4.10.0-3.xen412.el7.x86_64
libvirt-glib-1.0.0-1.el7.x86_64

virt-manager-common-1.5.0-1.el7.noarch
virt-manager-1.5.0-1.el7.noarch
virt-viewer-5.0-11.el7.x86_64

xen-runtime-4.12.0-1.el7.x86_64
xen-libs-4.12.0-1.el7.x86_64
xen-ovmf-20180825-1.gitef529e6ab.el7.x86_64
centos-release-xen-common-8-7.el7.centos.x86_64
centos-release-xen-412-8-7.el7.centos.x86_64
qemu-xen-4.12.0-1.el7.x86_64
xen-4.12.0-1.el7.x86_64
xen-hypervisor-4.12.0-1.el7.x86_64
xen-livepatch-build-tools-4.12.0-1.el7.x86_64
xen-licenses-4.12.0-1.el7.x86_64


-- Pasi



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