Re: [libvirt] libvirt unable to start domains

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak(a)gnome.org&gt; wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > <zeeshanak(a)gnome.org&gt; wrote: >> Hi, >> I updated my libvirt git clone and install yesterday (after about a >> month or so) and now I can't start domains: >> >> $ virsh start fedora18 >> error: Failed to start domain fedora18 >> error: unsupported configuration: This QEMU does not support QXL >> graphics adapters >> >> While libvirt is self-built, I'm using qemu 1.2.2-1.fc18 from vanila >> Fedora 18 repo. Just to be clear, qemu was not updated before the >> problem appeared, only libvirt. >> >> Here is the libvirtd log: >> http://static.fi/~zeenix/tmp/libvirtd-session-zeenix.log (13 MB). >> >> Also attaching the domain config. > If my `git bisect run` script worked, I've found the commit > introducing this issue: > > 4c993d8ab5473334e9d4155faa913476ada39069 is the first bad commit > commit 4c993d8ab5473334e9d4155faa913476ada39069 > Author: Guannan Ren <gren(a)redhat.com&gt; > Date: Fri Dec 14 15:06:31 2012 +0800 > > qemu: add qemu vga devices caps and one cap to mark them usable > > QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_QXL -device qxl > QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VGA -device VGA > QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_CIRRUS_VGA -device cirrus-vga > QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VMWARE_SVGA -device vmware-svga > > QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VIDEO_PRIMARY /* safe to use -device XXX > for primary video device */ > > Fix a typo in qemuCapsObjectTypes, the string 'qxl' here > should be -device qxl rather than -vga [...|qxl|..] > > :040000 040000 576dc9f1e74fae8b5d8c75349cc769e17c5f7758 > 5afc50956ad09cf6e740ce75800d746a53513271 M src > :040000 040000 0b95704f11e9aacbd4c6510e29343a497c52c11e > fbd9445a795a2814d8739805ebaf9c7c2f0d4160 M tests > bisect run success > > FWIW, problem is not reproducible against the parent commit > 34ca5684970fc5e4be0ec29809b73dea7be2d84f. > > -- > Regards, > > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > FSF member#5124 > Basically for some reason we tried to build the command line up as qemu-kvm ... -vga qxl instead of -device qxl-vga which is what I thought Guannan was aiming for. I could be wrong though. I'll take another look at it tonight.