Thanks, Eric! That helps. Alex. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/27/2012 12:42 PM, Alexander Lyakas wrote: >> Greetings everybody, >> >> I am running stock ubuntu-natty with kernel 2.6.38-8, KVM 0.14.0 and >> libvirt 0.8.8. I am spawning virtual machines with libvirt. >> I would like to test a new KVM version built aside without installing >> it over existing KVM. Is there a way to tell libvirt which KVM binary >> to pick up? >> I've been searching and saw that QEMU driver looks in /usr/bin for KVM >> executable. Is there a way to adjust that? > > If you modify the guest XML, the /domain/drivers/emulator XPath element > can set the path to the KVM executable you want to use for that domain > (libvirt fills in that element automatically with the kvm it found by > default if you didn't provide it, but by modifying the XML, you can > change the path to use on the next boot of the domain). > > -- > Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org >
