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:

On 01/25/2010 02:44 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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. Ah, I didn't realize Mattias' patch was still outstanding.  I'll wait until he pushes and then recreate this patch. -- Chris Lalancette