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

[Guido Günther]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 03:00:29PM -0400, Elana Hashman wrote:
> 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 out-of-date jessie machine with the following package versions: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.

Please somebody who's seeing this problem apply the patch mentioned by
Han and report the error message you see there. Without me being able to
reproduce this is just not progressing anywhere.
 -- Guido