[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#507547: libvirt-bin: Add link on /usr/bin/qemu-kvm or change code

[Marc Fargas]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.5.0-1
Severity: normal

Maybe this bug should be "important" as it makes one driver
not-usable.

Hi there,
As per libvirt's docs: 
    KVM hypervisor: The driver will probe /usr/bin  for the presence of
    qemu-kvm and /dev/kvm device node. If both are found, then KVM
    fullyvirtualized, hardware accelerated guests will be available. 

This is true, as if there's not /usr/bin/qemu-kvm you can't do KVM
virtual machines (and if you have no qemu installed you can only do
UML then).

I had to manually create a link from qemu-kvm to kvm and I can now do
KVM machines. Maybe either the kvm package should provide this link or
the libvirt-bin package should be changed to check for /usr/bin/kvm
instead of qemu-kvm

Thanks for packaging libvirt!
Marc


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (950, 'experimental'), (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (100, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.23-2          Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.23-2          Avahi common library
ii  libc6                  2.8+20080809-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.4-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.3-1           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26            2.6.2-1           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.4-2             library for common error values an
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-1             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-1             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsasl2-2             2.1.22.dfsg1-23   Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libselinux1            2.0.65-5          SELinux shared libraries
ii  libtasn1-3             1.7-1             Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libvirt0               0.5.0-1           library for interfacing with diffe
ii  libxenstore3.0         3.2.1-2           Xenstore communications library fo
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii  bridge-utils                  1.4-5      Utilities for configuring the Linu
pn  dnsmasq                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  iptables                      1.4.1.1-4  administration tools for packet fi
ii  netcat-openbsd                1.89-3     TCP/IP swiss army knife
pn  qemu                          <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
ii  policykit                     0.9-1      framework for managing administrat

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