severity 501692 normal thanks On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 06:15:24PM +0200, Marc Fargas wrote: > Running libvirtd with qemu 0.8.2 will lead to a nice error message: > Cannot determine QEMU argv syntax /usr/bin/qemu > > After talking in #virt it seems that libvirt runs: > qemu -help | head -3 > > To look for the qemu version installed, but qemu 0.8.2 doesn't > understand this argument hence the meaningfull error. > > qemu -h < That works. > > Apparently it has something to do with Ubuntu and KVM, as per IRC, the > command to check qemu was "qemu" until Ubuntu did something bad and > now it is "qemu -help" which breaks with qemu 0.8.2 -h seems to be supported by 0.9.X and 0.8.2 so we could use this instead. Someone would have to do some digging if there's a difference between "-h" and "-help" in different versions of qemu. Supporting etch isn't very high on my agenda, so help would be welcome. -- Guido
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