[virt-tools-list] a qemu/kvm version problem

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 12:45 +0400, Anton Protopopov wrote:
> 2009/10/9 Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>
>         Hi Anton,
>         
>         
>         On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 17:58 +0400, Anton Protopopov wrote:
>         > Hi, all.
>         >
>         > When I trying to create a kvm machine using virt-manager, I
>         get the
>         > following error message:
>         >
>         > Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'>
>         internal
>         > error unable to start guest: Supported machines are:
>         > pc         Standard PC (default)
>         > isapc      ISA-only PC
>         >
>         > The problem is that virt-manager uses "M=pc-0.11" parameter
>         in kvm
>         > command line, while
>         >   # virsh -c qemu:///system capabilities
>         >   ...
>         >       <domain type='kvm'>
>         >         <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator>
>         >         <machine>pc</machine>
>         >         <machine>isapc</machine>
>         >       </domain>
>         >   ...
>         > so it should be "M=pc" there.
>         >
>         > The similar problem was in libvirt recenlty, but it was
>         solved in
>         > 0.7.1. See the following
>         > discussion:
>         >
>         http://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg16154.html
>         
>         
>         Do you mean this still happens even with the fixed version of
>         libvirt?
> Exactly. I can create a machine using libvirt, but I can't create a
> machine
> using virt-manager. My versions are:
>   # rpm -q libvirt python-module-libvirt python-module-virtinst
> virt-manager
>   libvirt-0.7.1-alt2
>   python-module-libvirt-0.7.1-alt2
>   python-module-virtinst-0.500.0-alt1
>   virt-manager-0.8.0-alt1

Could you post your ~/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log?

Is it also broken with virt-install?

Cheers,
Mark.