On 02/08/2012 04:01 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote: > 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 Hi Michal, there's already a similar section in the FAQ: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/FAQ maybe we should find a way to merge the two? Thanks, Cole