From: Alex Jia [mailto:ajia@redhat.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 9:52 PM
To: Shawn Davis
Cc: Eric Blake; libvirt-users@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] qemu-monitor-command
On 03/22/2012 05:40 AM, Shawn Davis wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
On 03/21/2012 02:58 PM, Shawn Davis wrote:
>> Older libvirt had a bug where it wouldn't parse qemu 1.0 version (the
>> change from 3 digits to 2 confused the older libvirt). If you're going
>> to go with self-built qemu, you might also want to try self-built
>> libvirt 0.9.10.
>>
>> --
>> Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266
>> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>>
>
> I installed libvirt 0.9.10 from source and now virsh is not finding the
> following:
>
> testa@testaT4:~$ virsh list
> virsh: /usr/lib/libvirt-qemu.so.0: version `LIBVIRT_QEMU_0.9.4' not found
> (required by virsh)
Ouch - you've now got version mismatch, where you didn't completely
uninstall the distro version, and your self-built version is installed
in locations that pick up the distro version. Did you use the right
configure flags?
> I can't install qemu 1.0 and libvirt 0.9.10 through apt right?
Ah, apt - are you on debian or ubuntu? I don't know as much about the
versions that those distros are using (I'm personally using Fedora 16,
along with the fedora-virt-preview repo, which gives 0.9.10 pre-built).
> I assume I
> had to get them from source. Anyways, please let me know how I can get
> virsh to see that I have 0.9.10. Once I get this working and can run that
> monitor command I will be in good shape.
There might be someone already shipping a pre-built 0.9.10 apt, but I
wouldn't know where to tell you to look, so building from source is the
other alternative. If you build from libvirt.git, you can use
'./autobuild.sh --system' to help set the ./configure options that match
with the typical installation directories for at least Fedora, but
again, I don't know how that fares with the debian installation layout
(and patches are welcome to autobuild.sh for anyone that wants to use it
on a debian layout).
--
Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
Yeah, I am using Ubuntu 11.10. I was able to uninstall the old libvirt and virsh works again but still getting this when trying to start the vm:
testa@testaT4:~$ virsh list
Id Name State
----------------------------------------------------
testa@testaT4:~$ virsh version
Compiled against library: libvir 0.9.10
Using library: libvir 0.9.10
Using API: QEMU 0.9.10
error: failed to get the hypervisor version
error: internal error Cannot find suitable emulator for x86_64
testa@testaT4:~$ virsh -c qemu:///system start Shawn
error: Failed to connect socket to '/usr/local/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory
I guess you're using a old virsh with new libvirt, you may check your virsh command location,
if `which virsh` says '/usr/bin/virsh' and `which libvirtd` says /usr/sbin/libvirtd, and socket is
/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock not above socket path, it's right.
It probably your virsh command path is /usr/local/bin/virsh, and your socket path is
/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock now, if so, you may explicitly specify /usr/bin/virsh or clean up
your dirty environment then directly run virsh instead of a absolute path.
Good Luck!
Alex
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
testa@testaT4:~$
Thanks again for helping me out!
I ended up starting over and reinstalled Ubuntu 11.10. I removed the exiting kvm and downloaded qemu-kvm-1.0.tar.gz and built it from source out of my Downloads directory. I then did the same thing with libvirt 0.9.10. Virsh works but still when I do the version it still says:
error: failed to get the hypervisor version
error: internal error Cannot find suitable emulator for x86_64
I also can’t seem to start libvirtd and it is not located in /etc/init.d
Sorry for the noob question but how do I configure and build qemu-kvm and libvirt so that they are all installed in the correct places? Is there a specific flag I need to use or do I need to install them from a specific directory? It looks like the files and being put all over the place. Some are in /etc and some are in /usr/local/etc. If I can get everything to install in the correct spots I should be good I would hope.
Thanks!
Shawn