[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#507547: Bug#507547: libvirt-bin: Add link on /usr/bin/qemu-kvm or change code
Guido Günther
agx at sigxcpu.org
Tue Dec 2 21:24:30 UTC 2008
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:21:50AM +0100, Marc Fargas wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 0.5.0-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Maybe this bug should be "important" as it makes one driver
> not-usable.
>
> Hi there,
> As per libvirt's docs:
> KVM hypervisor: The driver will probe /usr/bin for the presence of
> qemu-kvm and /dev/kvm device node. If both are found, then KVM
> fullyvirtualized, hardware accelerated guests will be available.
>
> This is true, as if there's not /usr/bin/qemu-kvm you can't do KVM
> virtual machines (and if you have no qemu installed you can only do
> UML then).
It should check for /usr/bin/kvm too - it did before. I'll fix that.
-- Guido
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