[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#700231: Bug#700231: libvirt-bin: Recommends: on newer qemu-kvm should be better publicized

[Luca Capello]

Hi there!

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:18:00 +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 09:37:14AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
>> Hi Lars,
>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:37:49AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
>> > Package: libvirt-bin
>> > Version: 0.9.12-6~bpo60+1
>> > Severity: normal
>> > Usertags: pca.it-virtualization
>> > 
>> > Hi there!
>> > 
>> > During today's upgrade I was surprised to read about the new qemu-kvm
>> > required by libvirt-bin and discovering that I was still using the old
>> > one:
>> 
>> Do you remember what exactly broke with old QEMU from Squeeze?

I did not, I was surprised of the note in the libvirt-bin's
debian/changelog given that even after the upgrade everything seemed to
work OK.

> That's what Lars dug out:
>
> : ERROR internal error Process exited while reading console log output:
> Supported machines are:
> pc Standard PC (alias of pc-0.12)
> pc-0.12 Standard PC (default)
> pc-0.11 Standard PC, qemu 0.11
> pc-0.10 Standard PC, qemu 0.10
> isapc ISA-only PC
>
> It happened because virtinst whas passing was requesting a machine id
> like -M pc-1.1 .

Ah, that should explain why I did not experience the bug:
=====
mantissa:~# grep machine /etc/libvirt/qemu/*.xml
/etc/libvirt/qemu/andrea.xml:    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0.12'>hvm</type>
/etc/libvirt/qemu/mahnamahna.xml:    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0.12'>hvm</type>
/etc/libvirt/qemu/monitoraggio.xml:    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0.12'>hvm</type>
/etc/libvirt/qemu/openfixmap.xml:    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0.12'>hvm</type>
/etc/libvirt/qemu/shelob.xml:    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0.12'>hvm</type>
mantissa:~#
=====

> I agree that it's not a libvirt bug buy itself but the
> IMHO the best work around to keep users out of trouble when also using a
> newer virt-manager/virtinst. I'll add a more prominent note to the next
> upload.

Thank you very much, simply adding the same debian/changelog entry to
debian/NEWS, with a link to this bug, is enough for me :-)

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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