[vfio-users] How to let libvirt recognize manual install QEMU?

[Blank Field]

Ovmf is a separate package, but i get it from git autobuilds.
On Sep 22, 2015 11:25 AM, "Eddie Yen" <missile0407 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Update:
>
> Still fail to install dracut on Ubuntu, so I decide to give up this step.
>
> Also I tried the ppa source of libvirt and virt-manager, got some problems.
>
> First, I can't call boot menu out on Seabios, and if I added virtio driver
> iso into hardware list, bios can't boot because virtio disc is 1st boot
> device.
> So I can only install Windows 10 with non-virtio drive.
> And I know there is a settings that can make Seabios show boot menu, but I
> don't know how to edit by using virsh.
>
> Second, looks like it still not included OVMF file inside the libvirt and
> virt-manager.Where can I get it? And put where?
>
> Sorry for so many questions
>
> 2015-09-21 19:40 GMT+08:00 Eddie Yen <missile0407 at gmail.com>:
>
>> OK, for today's test and included 4 times re-install Ubuntu, now I can
>> build VM with virt-manager, thanks for Francesco's repository.
>> But not test VFIO bind yet.
>>
>> Here is a preliminary result:
>> First, looks like dracut can't install on Ubuntu, and no longer support
>> on Ubuntu 14.04
>> Everytime I tried to install dracut by using apt-get, it gets error.
>> So I guess that I still need to use pci-stub on Ubuntu.
>> A bit of trouble, but there is no other ways.
>>
>> Second, I found that I didn't get any OVMF binaries after I installed
>> QEMU, libvirt, and virt-manager.
>> Looks like I need to find out. Which versions of OVMF are stable for
>> WIndows 10 right now?
>> Because I got movement delay on WIndows 8.1 and 10 with OVMF, and both
>> guest and host will crash (screen frozen) randomly.
>>
>> Does anyone had suggestions?
>>
>> 2015-09-21 17:24 GMT+08:00 francesco dicarlo <evilsephiroth at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> you can use this ppa on ubuntu  14.04
>>>
>>> https://launchpad.net/~jacob/+archive/ubuntu/virtualisation
>>>
>>> includes also qemu 1.2.0
>>>
>>> 2015-09-21 10:59 GMT+02:00 Eddie Yen <missile0407 at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Yes, I successfully installed QEMU with --perfix=/usr, also
>>>> virt-manager can recognize QEMU right now.
>>>> But there is another problem, bacause virt-manager on Ubuntu's
>>>> repository is too old (0.9.3)
>>>> Now I'm trying to install it downloaded from website.
>>>>
>>>> 2015-09-21 16:12 GMT+08:00 Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> If you have virt-manager installed, it greatly simplifies network
>>>>> setup and management.
>>>>> Also, libvirt searches for qemu binaries in PATH env.variable and
>>>>> those binaries should be qemu:qemu user-grouped.
>>>>> On Sep 21, 2015 8:17 AM, "Eddie Yen" <missile0407 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for reply, and you just let me got a point!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And the other thing is networking. Recently I'm using qemu-ifup as my
>>>>>> virtual NAT network.
>>>>>> For now I want to use virtual NAT by qemu-bridge-helper and using on
>>>>>> VM script.
>>>>>> But I don't know how to write on script.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Recently, I'm using:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -net tap -net nic,macaddr=<Mac-Address>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I want to use native QEMU virtual network without add qemu-ifup,
>>>>>> what should I do?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2015-09-21 12:51 GMT+08:00 Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There was <emulator> attribute in the device section, but i am
>>>>>>> afraid it's only related to device emulator.
>>>>>>> Anyway, i think something's wrong with the paths. Like qemu
>>>>>>> make-installed into opt instead of usr-bin. You can make a symlink from
>>>>>>> usual usr-bin location of stock old qemu to your fresh install.
>>>>>>> On Sep 21, 2015 7:36 AM, "Eddie Yen" <missile0407 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello everyone, I got another question.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I re-installed Ubuntu because it may crash while I'm running VM
>>>>>>>> with UEFI mode.
>>>>>>>> So this time, I'm trying to install KVM step by step according from
>>>>>>>> AW's blog.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But I don't know the QEMU version on Ubuntu repository is 2.4.0 or
>>>>>>>> not,
>>>>>>>> (According to Launchpad, it wrote 2.0.0)
>>>>>>>> So I decided to install kernel and QEMU by manual and install
>>>>>>>> libvirt and virt-manager by apt-get.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> After that, I found that libvirt can't recognize QEMU during
>>>>>>>> creating the VM.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How can I let libvirt to recognize the manual install QEMU?
>>>>>>>>
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