What does 'virsh dumpxml $d | grep emulator' give?
<emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator
Also, what is the output of 'virsh capabilities' ?
<guest
<os_type>hvm</os_type
<arch
name='x86_64'
<wordsize>64</wordsize
<emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator
<machine>pc-0.11</machine
<machine
canonical='pc-0.11'>pc</machine
<machine>pc-0.10</machine
<machine>isapc</machine
<domain
type='qemu'
</domain
<domain type='kvm'
<emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator
</domain
</arch
<features
<acpi default='on' toggle='yes'/
<apic default='on' toggle='no'/
</features
</guest
What does 'qemu -M ?' and 'kvm -M ?' give?
# qemu -M ?
Supported machines are:
pc Standard PC (alias of pc-0.11)
pc-0.11 Standard PC (default)
pc-0.10 Standard PC, qemu 0.10
isapc ISA-only PC
# kvm -M ?
Supported machines are:
pc Standard PC (default)
isapc ISA-only PC
> I suspect the capabilities output is saying that /usr/bin/kvm supports
> the pc-0.11 machine type, when in fact only /usr/bin/qemu supports it
Yes