Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm binary is deprecated

[Alexander Binun]

The workaround offered in bug trackers is: "change the path associated with the 
emulation tag in the xml definition file. Change it to qemu-system-x86_64".

Well, I am familiar with XML definition files for VMs: they are used manually 
when defining VMs in virsh (virsh define xmldef.xml and so on). There is the 
emulation tag there, pointing to the path to the emulator. 

virt-manager (used by me) creates such a file also (putting in into 
/etc/libvirt/qemu).

But so far I do not have valid XML definition files. So I intend to try the 
following ways:
   --- find an example definition file and create a VM manually (through virsh)
   --- use qemu & kvm compiled from the Git sources referred to by you.

Your opinion ?

Thanks in advance, 
    Alex






On Mon 14 Oct 11:12 2013 Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 05:45:52PM +0300, Alexander Binun wrote:
> >    The qemu used by me is the one installed using apt-get install qemu. The 
> > executable is in /usr/bin. The KVM driver is the one supplied with Ubuntu 
> > 13.04.
> > 
> > The version of qemu is 1.4.0 (after running qemu --version I get the message
> > 
> >   --- QEMU emulator version 1.4.0 (Debian 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4), 
> > Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
> > 
> > You mean I should use the build-from-sources qemu (getting the sources from 
> > git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git) ? Should I then compile from sources 
> > and mount the KVM ?
> 
> In that case it sounds like everything is coming from Ubuntu 13.04 and
> should work together.
> 
> Sorry, I don't know about Ubuntu 13.04.  Perhaps there is already a
> solution if you search the Ubuntu bug tracker.
> 
> Stefan
>