[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] libvirt doesn't work with qemu 1.0

[Jiri Denemark]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 08:50:11 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 12/02/2011 08:21 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >    Hi,
> >
> > $subject says all.  The error message is:
> >
> > error: internal error cannot parse /home/kraxel/bin/qemu-default version
> > number in 'QEMU emulator version 1.0, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice
> > Bellard'
> 
> Parsing help output for the version number is a really bad idea.  query-version 
> in QMP does the right thing:
> 
> (QEMU) query-version
> {u'return': {u'qemu': {u'micro': 0, u'major': 1, u'minor': 0}, u'package': ''}}

Which of course only works with new enough QEMU that is known to support QMP
(which BTW we detect by checking the version number). Anyway, the fix is easy,
we just need to assume micro is 0 if it's missing instead of requiring it to
be present. A fix will come soon.

Jirka