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

[Guido Günther]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 07:56:52PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> 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.

Please attach domain XML for the affected machines to the bug as well as
libvirtd's output in debug mode when trying to start the VM.
Cheers,
 -- Guido