On 01/02/2018 12:57 PM, Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY wrote: > Hello, > > I face this problem and I am willing to provide a patch in order to have > a more informative message. > This, of course with our help. I am not quite certain. > > First of all: What is the problem? > > On a fresh Install (ArchLinux for me), if ever forget to install Qemu > and launch "virt-install" with "--type kvm", I get the message: > > "Host does not support any virtualization options" > > > According to me, this message should be improved: if Qemu is not found, > this should be "Did not find Qemu, please install it". > > As I searched, the message is generated by this piece of code: > > https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/blob/c92aade081687b19f5a60cddfe331b2fb6d09f98/virtinst/capabilities.py#L390 > > > As I write now, I cant find the pice of code actually calling the > "quemu" binary. I think I should add a try/catch block there and Raise > the right Exception. > Would someone help me a bit? virt-manager is not calling any qemu binaries at all. It just relies on whatever capabilities libvirt presents. The reason for that is remote access - just imagine you'd be installing a domain on a remote machine and virt-manager (virt-install) would spawn your local qemu binary to find out its capabilities. That would be flawed, wouldn't it. I agree that the error message can be made better (just like 90% of other messages of ours), but first things first. What's the output of 'virsh capabilities' (if you're giving any connection URI to virt-install give it to virsh too). Michal -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
