On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Heiko Zinke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So if I "sudo virsh edit vmname" and substitute "/usr/bin/qemu-kvm" by >> "/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -enable-kvm" I only get this >> error :( >> "error: Cannot check QEMU binary /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine >> accel=kvm -enable-kvm: No such file or directory" > > I replaced /usr/bin/qemu-kvm with /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 and > everything worked fine. > > However, perhaps leaving out the --enabled-kvm will cause some > problem. If you do need to pass a parameter there may be some other > way to specify it - I'd have to read the xsd or the docs. >
Using /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 should be fine. It looks like libvirt will automatically append accel=kvm to the machine options, which is equivalent to -enable-kvm.

