vhost only works in KVM mode at the moment, and is infact compiled out if the emulator is built for non-native architecture. While it may work at some point in the future for plain qemu, for now it's just noise on the command line (and which contributes to arm cli breakage). --- src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c index 56e0809..8d3a65c 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c @@ -441,8 +441,10 @@ qemuOpenVhostNet(virDomainDefPtr def, { size_t i; - /* If the config says explicitly to not use vhost, return now */ - if (net->driver.virtio.name == VIR_DOMAIN_NET_BACKEND_TYPE_QEMU) { + /* If running a plain QEMU guest, or + * if the config says explicitly to not use vhost, return now*/ + if (def->virtType != VIR_DOMAIN_VIRT_KVM || + net->driver.virtio.name == VIR_DOMAIN_NET_BACKEND_TYPE_QEMU) { *vhostfdSize = 0; return 0; } -- 1.8.3.1 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list