Re: virsh capabilities does not include qemu

On 3/22/21 5:17 AM, shafnamol N wrote: > Hi, > I am new  to Libvirt and Qemu.I have installed Libvirt 7.1.0 and > qemu-kvm 4.2.0. > I configured and built libvirt based on instructions from > https://libvirt.org/compiling.html <https://libvirt.org/compiling.html>;. > But when i tried to create a VM using virsh it shows the following error: > # virsh create /home/abc.xml > error: Failed to create domain from /home/abc.xml > error: invalid argument: could not find capabilities for arch=x86_64 > domaintype=kvm > > When i check the hypervisor capabilities ,it doest show qemu in guest > domain type. > # virsh capabilities > .................................... > ..................................... >  </host> > >   <guest> >     <os_type>exe</os_type> >     <arch name='x86_64'> >       <wordsize>64</wordsize> >       <emulator>/usr/local/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator> >       <domain type='lxc'/> >     </arch> >   </guest> > >   <guest> >     <os_type>exe</os_type> >     <arch name='i686'> >       <wordsize>32</wordsize> >       <emulator>/usr/local/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator> This smells suspicious. Perhaps you did not pass proper prefix (meson -Dsystem=true)? Anyway, libvirt tries to find qemu-system-$arch in $PATH and falls back to /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm if no binary was found. So I suspect that maybe the directory you installed QEMU into is not in $PATH?