On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:05:21AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > Before starting any guest, the QEMU driver needs to figure out what version > of QEMU is in use & thus determine whether it supports particular command > line flags. We currently do that just by calling /usr/bin/qemu, since all > the various qemu-system-XXX binaries share the same syntax. The only problem > is that qemu-kvm does not neccessarily match the version of qemu installed. > So we detect QEMU version 0.8.2, but KVM is 0.9.0 based. The result is that > we pass the wrong style VNC argument to KVM & it fails to start. The second > problem is that even if you only ever want to run KVM guests, you still have > to have KVM itself installed. > > This patch tweaks the feature/version detection so we do separate detection > just for KVM. With this applied I can successfully start KVM guests if the > QEMU version is different, or even if QEMU is not installed. Looks fine to me, +1 Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list