Starting a KVM guest on s390 fails immediately. This is because "qemu --help" reports -no-acpi even for the s390(x) architecture but -no-acpi isn't supported there. Workaround is to remove QEMU_CAPS_NO_ACPI from the capability set after the version/capability extraction. Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c index 4308833..0c01cb0 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c @@ -1511,6 +1511,11 @@ int qemuCapsExtractVersionInfo(const char *qemu, const char *arch, qemuCapsSet(flags, QEMU_CAPS_PCI_MULTIBUS); } + /* S390 and probably other archs do not support no-acpi - + maybe the qemu option parsing should be re-thought. */ + if (STREQLEN(arch, "s390x", 5)) + qemuCapsClear(flags, QEMU_CAPS_NO_ACPI); + /* qemuCapsExtractDeviceStr will only set additional flags if qemu * understands the 0.13.0+ notion of "-device driver,". */ if (qemuCapsGet(flags, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE) && -- 1.7.0.4 -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind Regards Viktor Mihajlovski IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list