[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#780093: libvirt: error: unsupported configuration: QEMU 2.1.2 is too new for help parsing

[Elana Hashman]

Just wanted to chime in that I am encountering the same error on a

`virsh define container.xml`

But I also see

ehashman at host:~$ virt-xml-validate container.xml
container.xml validates

This machine is running Debian jessie,

libvirt-bin: 1.2.9-9
QEMU:        2.1.2 (Debian 1:2.1+dfsg-12)
Linux: 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1 (2015-05-24)
        x86_64 GNU/Linux

I was able to successfully run the above command on another slightly
out-of-date jessie machine with the following package versions:

libvirt-bin: 1.2.7-10+b1
QEMU:        2.1.0 (Debian 2.1+dfsg-2)
Linux: 3.14-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.14.15-2 (2014-08-09) x86_64
        GNU/Linux

Unlike the above reporter, my VM is only using 1024MB RAM and no
chroot.

Because the machine having issues is a recent install, I can't
downgrade my packages, so I don't have a solution to this problem.

- e