[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#857195: libvirt-clients

[Adrian Davey]

Package: libvirt-clients
Version: 3.0.0-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

`virsh capabilities` does not report <guest> section for some non-native 
qemu-system-$arch.

libvirt api (https://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html#prereq) describes that

"
Deployment pre-requisites
QEMU emulators: The driver will probe /usr/bin for the presence of qemu, 
qemu-system-x86_64, qemu-system-microblaze, qemu-system-microblazeel, 
qemu-system-mips,qemu-system-mipsel, qemu-system-sparc,qemu-system-ppc. 
The results of this can be seen from the capabilities XML output "

However, qemu-system-sparc nor qemu-system-mips are not reported.
qemu-system-x86, qemu-system-arm, qemu-system-ppc are reported however.
(Host is x86_64 debian sid)

This makes creating guest domain from XML impossible for sparc* and 
mips* guests:

virsh -c qemu:///system define debian-sid-sparc64.xml
error: Failed to define domain from debian-sid-sparc64.xml
error: invalid argument: could not find capabilities for arch=sparc64

Regards,

Adrian