Public bug reported:
On Focal, I created a new KVM machine using virt-manager. Nothing
special, just a bionic guest.
Upon examining the qemu-system-x86_64 process that got spawned, /usr/bin
/qemu-system-x86_64 was executed directly, and my override in
/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 was not executed, and upon further
examination of the qemu command line, -enable-kvm was missing:
$ps ax | grep qemu-system
/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name guest=ubuntu18.04
<snip>
I then looked at the libvirt XML generated with:
$ virsh edit ubuntu18.04
Under the <devices> section, I see:
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>
On bionic and xenial, this was set to:
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/bin/kvm-spice</emulator>
/usr/bin/kvm-spice is a symlink to /usr/bin/kvm, which contains the
following script:
#!/bin/sh
exec qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm "$@"
This is where -enable-kvm is added to the command line, and qemu-system-
x86_64 is called from $PATH, and is not hardcoded.
If you set the <emulator> tag back to /usr/bin/kvm-spice, everything
works as expected, just like it did on xenial and bionic.
$ps ax | grep qemu-system
/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -name guest=ubuntu18.04
<snip>
My question is, was this change intentional, or is it a bug? By
hardcoding the emulator to /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64, we no longer get
-enable-kvm on the qemu command line, and we cannot use other qemu-
system-x86_64 from a higher priority directory from $PATH.
Output of kvm-ok seems fine:
$ kvm-ok
INFO: /dev/kvm exists
KVM acceleration can be used
Software versions:
qemu-kvm 1:4.2-3ubuntu2
libvirt-daemon-system 6.0.0-0ubuntu5
libvirt-clients 6.0.0-0ubuntu5
virt-manager 1:2.2.1-3ubuntu1
** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Focal)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Focal)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
- On Focal, I created a new KVM machine using virt-manager. Nothing special,
just
- a bionic guest.
+ On Focal, I created a new KVM machine using virt-manager. Nothing
+ special, just a bionic guest.
Upon examining the qemu-system-x86_64 process that got spawned, /usr/bin
/qemu-system-x86_64 was executed directly, and my override in
/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 was not executed, and upon further
examination of the qemu command line, -enable-kvm was missing:
$ps ax | grep qemu-system
/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name guest=ubuntu18.04
<snip>
I then looked at the libvirt XML generated with:
$ virsh edit ubuntu18.04
Under the <devices> section, I see:
<devices>
- <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>
+ <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>
On bionic and xenial, this was set to:
<devices>
- <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm-spice</emulator>
+ <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm-spice</emulator>
- /usr/bin/kvm-spice is a symlink to /usr/bin/kvm, which contains the following
- script:
+ /usr/bin/kvm-spice is a symlink to /usr/bin/kvm, which contains the
+ following script:
#!/bin/sh
exec qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm "$@"
This is where -enable-kvm is added to the command line, and qemu-system-
x86_64 is called from $PATH, and is not hardcoded.
If you set the <emulator> tag back to /usr/bin/kvm-spice, everything
works as expected, just like it did on xenial and bionic.
$ps ax | grep qemu-system
/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -name guest=ubuntu18.04
<snip>
My question is, was this change intentional, or is it a bug? By
hardcoding the emulator to /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64, we no longer get
-enable-kvm on the qemu command line, and we cannot use other qemu-
system-x86_64 from a higher priority directory from $PATH.
Output of kvm-ok seems fine:
$ kvm-ok
INFO: /dev/kvm exists
KVM acceleration can be used
Software versions:
qemu-kvm 1:4.2-3ubuntu2
libvirt-daemon-system 6.0.0-0ubuntu5
libvirt-clients 6.0.0-0ubuntu5
virt-manager 1:2.2.1-3ubuntu1
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focal not using /usr/bin/kvm-spice as default emulator
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