[libvirt] [PATCH] Look in /usr/libexec for the qemu-kvm binary.

[Matthias Bolte]

2010/1/25 Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com>:
> On RHEL-5 the qemu-kvm binary is located in /usr/libexec.
> To reduce confusion for people trying to run upstream libvirt
> on RHEL-5 machines, make the qemu driver look in /usr/libexec
> for the qemu-kvm binary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_conf.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
> index c227fe1..2ba8366 100644
> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
> @@ -797,7 +797,8 @@ qemudCapsInitGuest(virCapsPtr caps,
>      */
>     if (STREQ(info->arch, hostmachine) ||
>         (STREQ(hostmachine, "x86_64") && STREQ(info->arch, "i686"))) {
> -        const char *const kvmbins[] = { "/usr/bin/qemu-kvm", /* Fedora */
> +        const char *const kvmbins[] = { "/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm", /* RHEL */
> +                                        "/usr/bin/qemu-kvm", /* Fedora */
>                                         "/usr/bin/kvm" }; /* Upstream .spec */
>
>         for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_CARDINALITY(kvmbins); ++i) {
> --
> 1.6.6
>

Is /usr/libexec in PATH? Then the following patch will solve this problem too:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-January/msg00603.html

Matthias