[libvirt] Re: [PATCH 0/3] A small example program

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:23:29AM -0500, Dave Allan wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:10:58PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> >>Hi David,
> >>
> >>I've just applied your 3 patches and built the example.
> >>That went fine.  Then I tried to run it like this:
> >>
> >>     $ LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 libvirtd 2> log & pid=$!
> >>     $ ./hellolibvirt
> >>     Attempting to connect to hypervisor
> >>     Connected to hypervisor at "qemu:///session"
> >>? -> Failed to get hypervisor version
> >
> >This shows a place where the example program could use the libvirt 
> >error information - it should have received error message to the 
> >effect of
> >
> >  'Cannot find QEMU binary /usr/bin/qemu'
> >
> >when qemudExtractVersion failed to find the binary it wanted
> 
> I should illustrate getting the error messages in the example.  I'll put 
> it in.  Did you deliberately break your system to provoke the failure? 
> I had to rename /usr/bin/qemu to get it.

Just don't install QEMU package - just have KVM

Daniel
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