I am trying to migrate my setup from VirtualBox to libvirt/kvm.


Earlier, libvirt used to have an option for the user, on what emulator
they wanted to run as. Then, we could choose kvm or qemu.

In the virt-manager, I do not see that option any more. Is it left out
intentioanlly ?

My intent is to bring back my debian gnu/hurd vm into libvirt setup. But
hurd can have issues booting with kvm from time to time. So having
support for the qemu emulator really helps.

Also, in virt-manager, under "Architectures" I do not see the i386
architecture.


I looked into README/NEWS files but do not see anything about it, hence
this bug report.


Thanks,
Ritesh

PS: For the record, my kvm setup currently is not able to boot debian
hurd. The same is still bootable with qemu.

reassign 805622 virt-manager
thanks

Hi Ritesh,

These sound like bugs in virt-manager not libvirt itself. You can set
the emulator in the domain XML at any time, not sure if this works via
virt-manager though.

However i386 not being listed although it's listed in

    virsh capabilities

looks like a bug (and I can reproduce this here). Not sure when I will
get around to look into this though.

Cheers,
 -- Guido

error.


Failed. Try again? [y,n,i,f,?]:
y - yes, start editor again
n - no, throw away my changes
i - turn off validation and try to redefine again
f - force, try to redefine again
? - print this help
Failed. Try again? [y,n,i,f,?]:
error: unsupported configuration: Unknown architecture i386
Failed. Try again? [y,n,f,?]:
y - yes, start editor again
n - no, throw away my changes
f - force, try to redefine again
? - print this help
Failed. Try again? [y,n,f,?]:
error: unsupported configuration: Unknown architecture x86
Failed. Try again? [y,n,i,f,?]:


I am new to libvirt again and will spend some time to get further
acquainted with it. Meanwhile, if you have pointers, that'll help.

 

I am trying to move back to kvm/qemu. Is it that you are understaffed
for libvirt ? If you need help, I can collaborate with you ?

Check the supported architectures with "virsh capabilities". I think you
want i686.
Hope this helps,
 -- Guido

Thanks Guido. That did help.