[libvirt-users] Connecting libvirt to manually compiled QEMU

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 05:17:52PM +0500, Asadullah Hussain wrote:
> Guys thanks a lot for taking the time out to reply, Although adding the
> $PATH & symbolic link methods both solved the "No hypervisor found" error
> on virt-manager but when I try to create a VM using the wizard it says:
> 
> "No hypervisor options were found for this connection"
> 
> "This usually means that QEMU or KVM is not installed on your machine, or
> the KVM modules are not loaded."
> 
> The QEMU I want to connect to libvirt has no KVM kernel drivers (DPDK
> Qemu). There is a single binary "qemu-system-x86_64"
> 
> I am using virt-manager GUI to see whether qemu is being detected by
> libvirt or not (is there a better/CLI method?)

Yes, ignore virt-manager for now. You just want 'virsh capabilities'
to show the binary you care about.

Regards,
Daniel
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