[libvirt-users] virt-install: "ERROR Host does not support any virtualization options"

[Michal Privoznik]

On 08.02.2012 09:33, Felix Blanke wrote:
> On 2/8/12 12:52 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> On 02/07/2012 08:11 AM, Felix Blanke wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I tried (most) of your use flags without any change.
>>>
>>> Maybe it's because my CPU is very new and qemu-kvm-1.0-r2 has problem
>>> with
>>> that. Whatever, I'm fine with the 9999 version.
>>>
>>> Still needs to get a tutorial how to use vde with virt-install. Can't
>>> find
>>> anything in the net :(
>>>
>>
>> The root cause is that older libvirt failed at parsing the qemu 1.0
>> version
>> string. Please file a bug with your distro and ask them to backport
>> this fix
>> so other users won't hit the same problem:
>>
>> http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=dd8e8956060f38b084d581ed63f934c3d8202071
>>
>>
>> - Cole
> 
> Hi Cole,
> 
> you're right. I installed libvirt-0.9.8 (instead of 0.9.6) and it works
> fine with qemu-1.0-r2.
> 
> Gentoo doesn't have to backport it. There is 0.9.8 allready in portage,
> but masked (means not 100% stable). But qemu-kvm-1.0-r2 is also marked
> as masked. Therefore it is only a combination of one masked
> (qemu-kvm-1.0-r2) and one unmasked (libvirt-0.9.6) package, which isn't
> anything I could complain about :)
> Maybe I should fill in a "bug" report that if qemu-kvm is unmasked they
> need to unmask libvirt, too. I'll thing about it.
> 
> Thank you for clearing things up.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Felix Blanke
> 

I've started Troubleshooting wiki page on libvirt and added your case as
it was showing up frequently:

http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Troubleshooting

Michal