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