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

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Wed Mar 15 04:44:20 UTC 2017


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



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