[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#756159: qemu-kvm: Please build binary with SATA and hda sound support

[Guido Günther]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:31:29PM +0100, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
> Package: qemu-kvm
> Version: 2.0.0+dfsg-6+b1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When I set up a virtual machine with a SATA drive, the VM fails to start with
> the following message:
> Error starting domain: unsupported configuration: SATA is not supported with
> this QEMU binary
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 96, in
> cb_wrapper
>     callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 117, in tmpcb
>     callback(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1160, in startup
>     self._backend.create()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 917, in create
>     if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
> libvirtError: unsupported configuration: SATA is not supported with this QEMU
> binary

What machine type are you using? Try q35 please.
 -- Guido