[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#578347: libvirt-bin: Cannot start a VM failing with "qemu: '' invalid format"

[Olivier Berger]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.8.0-1
Severity: normal

Hi.

When I try to start a qemu session, I get this traceback :
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 808, in run_domain
    vm.startup()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1286, in startup
    self._backend.create()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 333, in create
    if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/7
qemu: '' invalid format

It appears that this problem has apparently been discussed upstream : http://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg22948.html

As adviced there, I changed the "<driver name='qemu' type=''/>" to "<driver name='qemu'/>" and this fixed it.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.112          add and remove users and groups
ii  libavahi-client3          0.6.25-3       Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3          0.6.25-3       Avahi common library
ii  libc6                     2.10.2-6       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap-ng0                0.6.3-1        An alternate posix capabilities li
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1        2:1.02.45-1    The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libgcrypt11               1.4.5-2        LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26               2.8.6-1        the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libparted0debian1         2.2-5          The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libpciaccess0             0.11.0-2       Generic PCI access library for X
ii  libreadline6              6.1-1          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsasl2-2                2.1.23.dfsg1-5 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libudev0                  151-3          libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1                  2.16.2-0       Universally Unique ID library
ii  libvirt0                  0.8.0-1        library for interfacing with diffe
ii  libxenstore3.0            3.4.3~rc3-2    Xenstore communications library fo
ii  libxml2                   2.7.7.dfsg-1   GNOME XML library
ii  logrotate                 3.7.8-5        Log rotation utility

Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii  bridge-utils               1.4-5         Utilities for configuring the Linu
ii  dnsmasq-base               2.52-1        A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                   1.4.6-2       administration tools for packet fi
ii  netcat-openbsd             1.89-3        TCP/IP swiss army knife
ii  qemu                       0.12.3+dfsg-2 fast processor emulator
ii  qemu-kvm                   0.12.3+dfsg-4 Full virtualization on x86 hardwar

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
ii  policykit-1                   0.96-2     framework for managing administrat

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