[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 Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 04:09:02PM +0300, Mathieu Tarral wrote:
> 2016-10-19 15:09 GMT+03:00 Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org>:
> > 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
> 
> One of the maintainer on IRC tested the QEMU bug against multiple
> libvirt versions,
> and that's how he found that libvirt v1.3.3 was working.
> 
> Again, only QEMU v2.6 from backport is affected.
> 
> I'm not in a good configuration to test the libvirt patch as i'm
> working on Fedora,
> and i don't have full access to the Debian box where i found the bug.
> 
> Could you take care of it ?

Will do as soon as I get around to it. Thanks for letting us know!
Cheers,
 -- Guido