[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#646295: libguestfs: FTBFS: missing virtio-serial support in kvm

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Sat Oct 22 22:08:04 UTC 2011


Source: libguestfs
Version: 1.12.8-1
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS

This package FTBFS for me on a clean sid i386 chroot:

checking that /usr/bin/kvm -help works... yes
configure: error: in `/build/dom-libguestfs_1.12.8-1-i386-oAGKGc/libguestfs-1.12.8/debian/build-python2.6':
configure: error: I did not find virtio-serial support in
/usr/bin/kvm.

virtio-serial support in qemu or KVM is essential for libguestfs
to operate.

Usually this means that you have to install a newer version of qemu
and/or KVM.  Please read the relevant section in the README file for
more information about this.

You can override this test by setting the environment variable
vmchannel_test=no  However if you don't have the right support
in your qemu, then this just delays the pain.

If I am using the wrong qemu or you want to compile qemu from source
and install it in another location, then you should configure with
the --with-qemu option.

See `config.log' for more details
checking for virtio-serial support in /usr/bin/kvm... no
dh_auto_configure: ../../configure --build=i486-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir=${prefix}/include --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/libguestfs --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-daemon --disable-appliance --disable-fuse --with-java-home=no --disable-ocaml --disable-perl --disable-haskell --disable-ruby --disable-php PYTHON=python2.6 returned exit code 1
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_configure] Error 2

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