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

[Felix Blanke]

On 2/8/12 10:01 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> 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

Hi Michal,

thanks for creating this page. Looks like a good way to tell other 
people from all distributions about this bug.
This is the first time I'm "mentioned" in a wiki, I hope I can handle 
all that fame.

Kind regards,
Felix Blanke