[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#501692: Bug#501692: libvirt: Trouble with qemu 0.8.2 (etch)

[Guido Günther]

severity 501692 normal
thanks

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 06:15:24PM +0200, Marc Fargas wrote:
> Running libvirtd with qemu 0.8.2 will lead to a nice error message:
>     Cannot determine QEMU argv syntax /usr/bin/qemu
> 
> After talking in #virt it seems that libvirt runs:
>     qemu -help | head -3
> 
> To look for the qemu version installed, but qemu 0.8.2 doesn't
> understand this argument hence the meaningfull error.
> 
>     qemu -h < That works.
> 
> Apparently it has something to do with Ubuntu and KVM, as per IRC, the
> command to check qemu was "qemu" until Ubuntu did something bad and
> now it is "qemu -help" which breaks with qemu 0.8.2
-h seems to be supported by 0.9.X and 0.8.2 so we could use this
instead. Someone would have to do some digging if there's a difference
between "-h" and "-help" in different versions of qemu. Supporting etch
isn't very high on my agenda, so help would be welcome.
 -- Guido