[Libvirt-cim] libvirt error

Deepti B Kalakeri deeptik at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Dec 18 06:31:51 UTC 2008



Kaitlin Rupert wrote:
> Deepti B Kalakeri wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am seeing the following error on running the test suite on F10 
>> machines.
>>
>> CIM_NS=root/virt CIM_USER=root CIM_PASS=password ./runtests 
>> libvirt-cim -i localhost -c -v KVM -g ComputerSystem  -t 
>> 41_cs_to_settingdefinestate.py
>> *Starting test suite: libvirt-cim
>>
>> Encountered an error querying libvirt with: virsh -c qemu:///system 
>> version.  Please check your environment.
>>
>>
>> *This is because the following query does not work with the libvirt 
>> on F10:
>>
>> virsh -c qemu:///system version
>> Compiled against library: libvir 0.5.0
>> libvir: error : this function is not supported by the hypervisor: QEMU
>> error: failed to get the library version
>
> Do you have both KVM and QEMU installed on the system?  Both are 
> needed to start KVM guests appropriately.
>
>>
>>
>> The alternate option for this would be to use
>>
>> virsh -c qemu:///system -v
>> 0.5.0
>>
>> which works for RHEL, F9 and F10.
>
> The check in the testsuite is looking for this exact error condition - 
> it's checking both the libvirt version (for reporting purposes), but 
> it's also verifying the libvirt has the needed pieces to define KVM 
> guests.
>
> Let me know if you are seeing this issue on a system that has both 
> qemu and kvm packages installed.
>
> Thanks!
Here is the information on the libvirt , kvm and qemu on the machine.

qemu-0.9.1-10.fc10.x86_64
libvirt-0.5.0-1.fc10.x86_64
kvm-74-6.fc10.x86_64


Thanks and Regards,
Deepti.




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