[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#841291: Bug#841291: libvirt-bin: qemu backport v2.6 needs a backported version of libvirt-bin in Jessie

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:17:07AM +0200, Mathieu Tarral wrote:
> Hi Guido,
> 
> 2016-11-23 20:42 GMT+02:00 Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org>:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 03:01:01PM +0200, Mathieu Tarral wrote:
> > > Hi Guido,
> > >
> > >
> > > > Will do as soon as I get around to it. Thanks for letting us know!
> > > >
> > > > Any updates regarding this bug ?
> > > Did you find some time to patch libvirt and test QEMU with it ?
> >
> > Nope - not yet and not in the foreseable future.
> >  -- Guido
> >
> I tried to cherry-pick the commit that you mentionned
> (d7db33bfe978c89e1302609ac91e65be3d49379f)
> on top of libvirt v1.2.9.
> But i'm not a libvirt developer and there are a lot of conflicts.
> 
> So i tried compiling libvirt v1.3.1 and it produces the correct command
> line, the format=raw
> has disappeared.
> 
> Would you like to update libvirt to v1.3.1 then ?

We nned a proper backport, I've looked at this already a while back but
will need time to finish it.
 -- Guido