[libvirt-users] vhost-net requested but could not be initialized

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 08:42:47AM +0500, Asadullah Hussain wrote:
> Thanks Wangkai but libvirt infact pre-configures network tap devices and
> pre-opens /dev/vhost-net file and passes these to qemu as open, ready to
> use file descriptors.
> 
> My issue is that my qemu requires that /dev/vhost-net directory is removed
> and it's kernel module be unloaded. Then it creates a vhost -net device
> using its own configuration.

Libvirt is only written to work against official upstream QEMU. If you
have modified your QEMU to work in a different way wrt net devices then
you'll have to modify your libvirt to cope or workaround the problems.

Regards,
Daniel
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