[libvirt-users] Specifying the KVM binary to use with libvirt
Greetings everybody, I am running stock ubuntu-natty with kernel 2.6.38-8, KVM 0.14.0 and libvirt 0.8.8. I am spawning virtual machines with libvirt. I would like to test a new KVM version built aside without installing it over existing KVM. Is there a way to tell libvirt which KVM binary to pick up? I've been searching and saw that QEMU driver looks in /usr/bin for KVM executable. Is there a way to adjust that? Thanks, Alex.
On 03/27/2012 12:42 PM, Alexander Lyakas wrote:
Greetings everybody,
I am running stock ubuntu-natty with kernel 2.6.38-8, KVM 0.14.0 and libvirt 0.8.8. I am spawning virtual machines with libvirt. I would like to test a new KVM version built aside without installing it over existing KVM. Is there a way to tell libvirt which KVM binary to pick up? I've been searching and saw that QEMU driver looks in /usr/bin for KVM executable. Is there a way to adjust that?
If you modify the guest XML, the /domain/drivers/emulator XPath element can set the path to the KVM executable you want to use for that domain (libvirt fills in that element automatically with the kvm it found by default if you didn't provide it, but by modifying the XML, you can change the path to use on the next boot of the domain). -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
Thanks, Eric! That helps. Alex. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
On 03/27/2012 12:42 PM, Alexander Lyakas wrote:
Greetings everybody,
I am running stock ubuntu-natty with kernel 2.6.38-8, KVM 0.14.0 and libvirt 0.8.8. I am spawning virtual machines with libvirt. I would like to test a new KVM version built aside without installing it over existing KVM. Is there a way to tell libvirt which KVM binary to pick up? I've been searching and saw that QEMU driver looks in /usr/bin for KVM executable. Is there a way to adjust that?
If you modify the guest XML, the /domain/drivers/emulator XPath element can set the path to the KVM executable you want to use for that domain (libvirt fills in that element automatically with the kvm it found by default if you didn't provide it, but by modifying the XML, you can change the path to use on the next boot of the domain).
-- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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