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

[Guido Günther]

control: severity -1 normal
control: tags -1 +help

Hi,
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:00:26PM +0000, Mathieu Tarral wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 1.2.9-9+deb8u3
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I upgraded my QEMU package to 2.6+dfsg-3.1~bpo8+1, available from Jessie backports.
> However, when i tried to use it, running my virtual machines with virsh,
> i got this error :
> 
> error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2016-10-19T11:50:54.573141Z 
> qemu-system-x86_64: -drive if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-1,readonly=on,format=raw: 
> Can't use 'raw' as a block driver for the protocol level
> 
> Discussing the issue with maintainers on IRC, we understood that the command line 
> generated by libvirt is wrong.
> 
> In fact, the bug has been fixed in libvirt 1.3.1
> https://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/libvir/msg138220.html
> 
> Could you backport libvirt-bin v1.3.1 at least in Jessie ?

Lets rather fix the version in Jessie and let all users benefit from the
fix. Could you check that the patch mentioned in your link

      d7db33bfe978c89e1302609ac91e65be3d49379f

works with the QEMU in Jessie and with the backported one when applied
to 1.2.9?

Cheers,
 -- Guido