This was discussed in:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-May/msg01370.html
The capabilities code only sets the flag to allow use of vhost-net if
kvm is detected (set if the help string contains "(qemu-kvm-" or
"(kvm-"), but actually vhost-net is available in some qemu builds that
don't have kvm in their name, so just checking for ",vhost=" is enough.
---
src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
index ea55df5..71a54a5 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ qemuCapsComputeCmdFlags(const char *help,
if (is_kvm && (version >= 10000 || kvm_version >= 74))
qemuCapsSet(flags, QEMU_CAPS_VNET_HDR);
- if (is_kvm && strstr(help, ",vhost=")) {
+ if (strstr(help, ",vhost=")) {
ACK.
--
Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library