[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#848314: Bug#848314: Further fix for discussion in the scope of smoke-qemu-session

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:02:23AM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Package: libvirt
> Version: 2.5.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> This is a continuation of debbug 848247.
> But you said you want to close that with next upload but I should come back.
> 
> While the tests are now working fine in local autopkgtest I was throwing
> them at launchpad this night.
> And I think there I had a case where the discussion on "virt-host-validate
> qemu".
> 
> Maybe we should use it as an early exits as in the lxc case - to detect
> incompatible environments.
> I've seen this:
> + virt-host-validate qemu
>   QEMU: Checking for hardware virtualization
>   : PASS
>   QEMU: Checking if device /dev/kvm exists
>   : FAIL (Check that the 'kvm-intel' or 'kvm-amd' modules are loaded & the
> BIOS has enabled virtualization)
> 
> [...]
> 
> + virsh start sqs
> error: Failed to start domain sqs
> error: unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not
> available. Check that virtualization is enabled in the host BIOS, and host
> configuration is setup to load the kvm modules.
> 
> That is IMHO due to only having "isolation-container", but could even
> happen in isolaton-machine dependin on the setup.

The fix is to use qemu not kvm in the domain XML in this case.
 -- Guido