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

[Alexandru Geana]

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.

Thank you.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libvirt0 depends on:
ii  libapparmor1        2.11.0-2
ii  libaudit1           1:2.6.7-1
ii  libavahi-client3    0.6.32-2
ii  libavahi-common3    0.6.32-2
ii  libc6               2.24-9
ii  libcap-ng0          0.7.7-3
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.10.14-1
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.137-1
ii  libgnutls30         3.5.8-1
ii  libnl-3-200         3.2.27-1
ii  libnl-route-3-200   3.2.27-1
ii  libnuma1            2.0.11-2.1
ii  libsasl2-2          2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-2
ii  libselinux1         2.6-3
ii  libssh2-1           1.7.0-1
ii  libxen-4.8          4.8.1~pre.2017.01.23-1
ii  libxml2             2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2
ii  libyajl2            2.1.0-2

Versions of packages libvirt0 recommends:
ii  lvm2  2.02.168-1

libvirt0 suggests no packages.

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