Re: [libvirt-users] caps->nguests == 0?

On 06/19/2012 03:20 AM, Zhihua Che wrote: > First, I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I installed my > qemu-system-x86_64 in a non-default path, that is, NOT in /usr/bin, > /usr/local/bin etc. > In this case, if I started up libvirtd with sudo, qemuCapsInitGuest > failed to add hvm guest os type to driver->capabilities because it > can't find qemu-system-x86_64 by searching environmental variable > PATH!. > > But, the most confusing thing happened here. I've added the > qemu-system-x86_64 in PATH by editing the /etc/bash.bashrc. Why can't > it still find the qemu?. I found in > qemuCapsInitGuest->virFindFileInPath(info->binary) that the call to > getenv("PATH") didn't return the path I added myself! Remember, 'sudo' sanitizes PATH.  Just because you added the directory to _your_ PATH, under your uid, does not mean that the sanitized PATH used by sudo and user root is the same, unless you take explicit actions to set PATH as part of your sudo environment setup. --