On 08.02.2012 09:33, Felix Blanke wrote: > On 2/8/12 12:52 AM, Cole Robinson wrote: >> On 02/07/2012 08:11 AM, Felix Blanke wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I tried (most) of your use flags without any change. >>> >>> Maybe it's because my CPU is very new and qemu-kvm-1.0-r2 has problem >>> with >>> that. Whatever, I'm fine with the 9999 version. >>> >>> Still needs to get a tutorial how to use vde with virt-install. Can't >>> find >>> anything in the net :( >>> >> >> The root cause is that older libvirt failed at parsing the qemu 1.0 >> version >> string. Please file a bug with your distro and ask them to backport >> this fix >> so other users won't hit the same problem: >> >> http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=dd8e8956060f38b084d581ed63f934c3d8202071 >> >> >> - Cole > > Hi Cole, > > you're right. I installed libvirt-0.9.8 (instead of 0.9.6) and it works > fine with qemu-1.0-r2. > > Gentoo doesn't have to backport it. There is 0.9.8 allready in portage, > but masked (means not 100% stable). But qemu-kvm-1.0-r2 is also marked > as masked. Therefore it is only a combination of one masked > (qemu-kvm-1.0-r2) and one unmasked (libvirt-0.9.6) package, which isn't > anything I could complain about :) > Maybe I should fill in a "bug" report that if qemu-kvm is unmasked they > need to unmask libvirt, too. I'll thing about it. > > Thank you for clearing things up. > > Kind regards, > Felix Blanke > I've started Troubleshooting wiki page on libvirt and added your case as it was showing up frequently: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Troubleshooting Michal