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

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 02:09:31PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> 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 out-of-date jessie machine with the following package versions: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.

The snapshot at

    http://honk.dyn.sigxcpu.org/projects/libvirt/snapshots/

has the necessary patch to (hopefully) get a better error message. Could
you please try this version?
Cheers,
 -- Guido