Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Look in /usr/libexec for the qemu-kvm binary.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:38:26PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote: > 2010/1/25 Chris Lalancette <clalance(a)redhat.com&gt;: >> On RHEL-5 the qemu-kvm binary is located in /usr/libexec. >> To reduce confusion for people trying to run upstream libvirt >> on RHEL-5 machines, make the qemu driver look in /usr/libexec >> for the qemu-kvm binary. >> >> Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance(a)redhat.com&gt; >> --- >> src/qemu/qemu_conf.c | 3 ++- >> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c >> index c227fe1..2ba8366 100644 >> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c >> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c >> @@ -797,7 +797,8 @@ qemudCapsInitGuest(virCapsPtr caps, >> */ >> if (STREQ(info->arch, hostmachine) || >> (STREQ(hostmachine, "x86_64") && STREQ(info->arch, "i686"))) { >> - const char *const kvmbins[] = { "/usr/bin/qemu-kvm", /* Fedora */ >> + const char *const kvmbins[] = { "/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm", /* RHEL */ >> + "/usr/bin/qemu-kvm", /* Fedora */ >> "/usr/bin/kvm" }; /* Upstream .spec */ >> >> for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_CARDINALITY(kvmbins); ++i) { >> -- >> 1.6.6 >> > > Is /usr/libexec in PATH? Then the following patch will solve this problem too: No, its not in the $PATH in this case. The RHEL packaging puts KVM in the /usr/libexec hierarchy explicitly because it is not intended to be run directly by end users. In any case, can you apply your patch, and then we can re-do Chris' patch on top of it.