Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:16:05 +0000 From: berrange@redhat.com To: crobinso@redhat.com CC: x_k_123@hotmail.com; libvirt-list@redhat.com; virt-tools-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [virt-tools-list] Questions about virt-manager running on Arch of Itanium 64
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:09:28AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
On 11/23/2009 01:43 AM, Dustin Xiong wrote:
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:14:09 -0500, cole wrote:
cc-ing libvirt-list
> My cpu is itanium 64, the OS is RHEL.The libvirt is 0.6.3, virt-manager > is 0.6.1.
Ah, are you using the version of libvirt that comes with RHEL 5.4? That version has been patched to only look for the qemu-kvm binary in one spot: /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm IIRC. You could try to work with that! , but since you are already building upstream KVM, vir! t-manage r, and virtinst, might not be a bad idea to pull upstream libvirt as well.
yes, my libvirt rpm and other related rpms all came from the RHEL 5.4 iso. And they all build for itanium 64 # rpm -qa | grep libvirt libvirt-python-0.6.3-20.el5 libvirt-devel-0.6.3-20.el5 libvirt-0.6.3-20.el5
And i try to make a link, it still doesn't work. ln -s /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ia64 /usr/libexec/qemu-system-ia64
Actually I think that destination needs to be /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm, not qemu-system-ia64. And looking at the rhel5 code, this can also be /usr/bin/qemu-kvm
That's not going to help. 'ia64' is not listed as a valid architecture in qemu_conf.c, so it'll never be pulled into the capabilities, and thus libvirt will never even look for a KVM binary
The libvirt and virt-manager rpm all come from the iso of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Server (Itanium)Does the redhat have the plans to implement the architecture ia64 in libvirt ?
Someone needs to update qemu_conf.c to handle ia64 correctly.
If i want to update qemu_conf.c to handle ia64 , which files or datastruct needs to update ? Only the qemu_conf.c ? thanks a lot _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Friends get your Flickr, Yelp, and Digg updates when they e-mail you. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/soc...