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

Mon Mar 9 22:03:40 UTC 2015

On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:05:02AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Package: libvirt-clients
> Version: 1.2.9-9
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> tglase at tglase:~ $ virsh -c qemu:///system start MirBSD
> error: Failed to start domain MirBSD
> error: unsupported configuration: QEMU 2.1.2 is too new for help parsing

That is because it should use the more reliable QMP probing. Are you
wrapping qemu/kvm by a skript or something?

Does

    virsh capabilities

show the same error? Anything in the daemon logs (if not please try
increasing the debug level).
Cheers,
 -- Guido