On 01/09/2012 03:23 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 01/09/2012 01:05 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
This *kind of* addresses:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772395
(it doesn't eliminate the failure to start, but causes libvirt to give
a better idea about the cause of the failure).
If a guest uses a kvm emulator (e.g. /usr/bin/qemu-kvm) and the guest
is started when kvm isn't available (either because virtualization is
unavailable / has been disabled in the BIOS, or the kvm modules
haven't been loaded for some reason), a semi-cryptic error message is
logged:
libvirtError: internal error Child process (LC_ALL=C
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -device ? -device
pci-assign,? -device virtio-blk-pci,? -device virtio-net-pci,?) status
unexpected: exit status 1
This patch notices at process start that a guest needs kvm, and checks
for the presence of /dev/kvm (a reasonable indicator that kvm is
available) before trying to execute the qemu binary. If kvm isn't
available, a more useful (too verbose??) error is logged.
Nah, I think it is useful to have a message that long, as I have seen
quite a few people on the IRC channel (myself included, at one point)
that have forgotten to turn on the BIOS to allow kvm.
Note that this patch will only be helpful in cases where kvm was
available when the domain was defined, but is not available at runtime.
The former would be an issue to be solved in virt-install/virt-manager,
since they normally just pick from what libvirt tells them is available.
ACK.
Pushed. Thanks!
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