[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#854125: Bug#854125: libvirt0: could not find capabilities for arch=mips

[Niels Thykier]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 05:44:20 +0100 Guido =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?=
<agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> control: severity -1 grave
> 
> Hi,
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 12:36:42PM +0100, Alexandru Geana wrote:
> > Package: libvirt0
> > Version: 3.0.0-2
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > I am trying to create a mips based vm, but it seems that libvirt does
> > not support this architecture in the current debian testing.
> > 
> > If I run 'virsh capabilities', there is no mention of mips or variants
> > like mipsel, mips64, mips64el. If I try to make a vm with virt-manager,
> > mips is not an option in the architecture menu. If I try to make a vm
> > from an xml file with 'virsh create vm.xml' I get the output
> > 
> >     error: Failed to create domain from vm.xml
> >     error: invalid argument: could not find capabilities for arch=mips
> > 
> > I do have qemu-system-mips installed (also from package management) and
> > I can start the machine with qemu directly, so at least this excludes
> > qemu being the problem.
> 
> The problem is that libvirt fails to probe CPU definitions on mips. I'll
> have a look. Taggig as grave since this breaks a lot of existing VM
> configurations.
> Cheers,
>  -- Guido
> 
> 

Hi Guido,

Do you have any news for us on this bug? :)

~Niels