[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#805189: libvirt: error: unsupported configuration: IDE controllers are unsupported for this QEMU binary or machine type

[Aurelien Jarno]

Package: libvirt-daemon
Version: 1.2.21-1
Severity: important

Following the upgrade from jessie to sid, I am unable to start a mips
(malta machine), powerpc (g3beige machine) or sparc (sun4u machine) VM.
I get the following error message:

  error: unsupported configuration: IDE controllers are unsupported for this QEMU binary or machine type

These machines do have an IDE controller that was supported in previous
libvirt versions. And for some of them it is necessary to use it as the
bootloader doesn't support scsi or virtio.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libvirt-daemon depends on:
ii  libapparmor1        2.10-2+b1
ii  libaudit1           1:2.4.4-4
ii  libavahi-client3    0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1
ii  libavahi-common3    0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1
ii  libblkid1           2.27.1-1
ii  libc6               2.19-22
ii  libcap-ng0          0.7.7-1
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.10.2-1
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.110-1
ii  libfuse2            2.9.4-1
ii  libgnutls-deb0-28   3.3.18-1
ii  libnetcf1           1:0.2.8-1
ii  libnl-3-200         3.2.26-1
ii  libnl-route-3-200   3.2.26-1
ii  libnuma1            2.0.10-1
ii  libparted2          3.2-10
ii  libpcap0.8          1.7.4-1
ii  libpciaccess0       0.13.4-1
ii  librados2           0.80.10-2
ii  librbd1             0.80.10-2
ii  libsasl2-2          2.1.26.dfsg1-14+b1
ii  libselinux1         2.3-2+b1
ii  libssh2-1           1.5.0-2+b1
ii  libsystemd0         227-3
ii  libudev1            227-3
ii  libvirt0            1.2.21-1
ii  libxen-4.4          4.4.1-9+deb8u1
ii  libxenstore3.0      4.6.0-1
ii  libxml2             2.9.2+zdfsg1-4
ii  libyajl2            2.1.0-2

Versions of packages libvirt-daemon recommends:
ii  libxml2-utils    2.9.2+zdfsg1-4
ii  netcat-openbsd   1.105-7
pn  qemu-kvm | qemu  <none>

Versions of packages libvirt-daemon suggests:
ii  libvirt-daemon-system  1.2.21-1

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