Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm binary is deprecated

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Alexander Binun <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

An easy trick:
# mv /usr/bin/kvm /usr/bin/kvm.orig
# ln -s /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 /usr/bin/kvm

Hopefully libvirt will be happier with the actual qemu-system-x86_64
binary.  If this doesn't work you can move /usr/bin/kvm.orig back and
try the other methods.

Stefan