Hi, i've installed lastest kvm-86 and libvirt-0.6.4 tarballs on my debian stable and have a problem using virsh No matter what i do in the guest domain config or with /usr/bin/ symlinks, libvirt keeps using the -no-kvm option when starting guests when my cpu has kvm-amd support, modules are loaded and /dev/kvm exists, and starting the guests thru command line works fine, and faster. debian seems to install the following binary /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64, i had to add "/usr/bin/qemu" to get virsh to work, otherwise it will say it can't connect to qemu:///system here's some command output : #virsh -c qemu:///system capabilities <capabilities> <host> <cpu> <arch>x86_64</arch> </cpu> <migration_features> <live/> <uri_transports> <uri_transport>tcp</uri_transport> </uri_transports> </migration_features> </host> <guest> <os_type>hvm</os_type> <arch name='i686'> <wordsize>32</wordsize> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu</emulator> <machine>pc</machine> <machine>isapc</machine> <domain type='qemu'> </domain> </arch> <features> <pae/> <nonpae/> <acpi default='on' toggle='yes'/> <apic default='on' toggle='no'/> </features> </guest> <guest> <os_type>hvm</os_type> <arch name='x86_64'> <wordsize>64</wordsize> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <machine>pc</machine> <machine>isapc</machine> <domain type='qemu'> </domain> </arch> <features> <acpi default='on' toggle='yes'/> <apic default='on' toggle='no'/> </features> </guest> </capabilities> and tried adding "/usr/bin/qemu-kvm" symlink <capabilities> <host> <cpu> <arch>x86_64</arch> </cpu> <migration_features> <live/> <uri_transports> <uri_transport>tcp</uri_transport> </uri_transports> </migration_features> </host> <guest> <os_type>hvm</os_type> <arch name='i686'> <wordsize>32</wordsize> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu</emulator> <machine>pc</machine> <machine>isapc</machine> <domain type='qemu'> </domain> <domain type='kvm'> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator> </domain> </arch> <features> <pae/> <nonpae/> <acpi default='on' toggle='yes'/> <apic default='on' toggle='no'/> </features> </guest> <guest> <os_type>hvm</os_type> <arch name='x86_64'> <wordsize>64</wordsize> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <machine>pc</machine> <machine>isapc</machine> <domain type='qemu'> </domain> <domain type='kvm'> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator> </domain> </arch> <features> <acpi default='on' toggle='yes'/> <apic default='on' toggle='no'/> </features> </guest> </capabilities> So far i had no luck getting virsh to use kvm, it always adds the -no-kvm option, i'm not sure how to specify the domain type in the guest config, using the <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator> won't help. i've found that thread discussing the binaries and options but don't know if that patch was already added or if i have to patch my tarball.. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00281.html please let me know if there's some way to let libvirt know that kvm exists on a debian install, using /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 thx, Marc