[libvirt-users] How to explain this libvirt oddity w.r.t machine types?

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 08:21 +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 02:28:07PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > If I had to guess, I would say the <emulator> element of your guest
> > is probably pointing to a custom-built QEMU 2.11 binary rather than
> > the default one installed from RPMs.
> 
> Your guess made me curious enough to check the remote machine one last
> time before I went to sleep, but unfortunately the <emulator> element is
> pointing to the plain `/usr/bin/qemu-kvm`, which in turn exec()'s
> `/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64`.
> 
> (I attached the nothing-special, full guest XML.)

Interesting. What is the output of 'virsh capabilities'?

More interesting still is the fact that the guest XML you shared
looks like an *active* XML, ie. one taken from a running guest...
Does that mean the guest can start even though it's using the 2.11
machine type?

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization