[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#731815: Bug#731815: virsh: Unable to start any VM with custom cpu model

[Thomas Rechberger]

I did a fresh install from beta2 iso:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/jessie_di_beta_2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-lxde-CD-1.iso

Following steps to reproduce:
After fresh install the /var/cache/libvirt/qemu/capabilities folder does 
not exist.
Installed libvirt-bin and virtinst packages (without apt-get update).
Then i see about 20 xml files in cache folder.

virt-install --name test --memory 1024 --nodisk --pxe

complains that default network is not running

virsh net-start default

and when i now run virt-install again, it gives me again error of CPU.
I didnt touch qemu.conf and libvirtd.conf yet.

couple of packages were installed from ISO, not sure which ones. apt-get 
update and upgrade shows that everything with libvirt is uptodate 
(1.2.9-3, python-libvirt 1.2.9-1).

Am 29.10.2014 06:19, schrieb Guido Günther:
>
> That points to libvit no refreshing capabilities properly during the
> upgrade from wheezy to jessie. It should detect the changed qemu and
> do so.
>
> Can you add the information what versions (at least roughly) of qemu
> and libvirt you were ugrading from. The versions from stable or
> stable-backports?
>
> Cheers,
>   -- Guido
>