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#47570
libvirt still embeds full path to qemu-system in saved .xml files
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Reported by: divoplade <d <at> divoplade.fr>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 20:42:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 31365
Done: Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois <at> gmx.com>
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When i create a new libvirt instance with virt-manager, it embeds the
full path to the qemu binary used at the time. For the machine named
"networkboot":
# grep qemu-system /etc/libvirt/qemu/networkboot.xml
<emulator>/gnu/store/0rzb7rjri2kb258j58asndw2pnp0xv9p-qemu-2.11.1/bin/qemu-system-x86_64:</emulator>
If I later run "guix gc" and it happens to remove this particular qemu
version, the system no longer runs, of course:
# virsh start networkboot
error: Failed to start domain networkboot
error: Cannot check QEMU binary
/gnu/store/0rzb7rjri2kb258j58asndw2pnp0xv9p-qemu-2.11.1/bin/qemu-system-x86_64:
No such file or directory
It also means each virtual machine may be running on an older version of
qemu, for better or worse.
Manaully replacing the emulator entry in the .xml file with
/run/current-system/profie/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 works around the
issue, and might be the easiest fix.
It wouldn't take advantage of a qemu install done in the user's
profile. I'm not sure if libvirtd can be run as a user-installed
profile, so maybe it has to use the system path anyways. I believe
libvirtd is normally run as it's own user, with it's own PATH.
live well,
vagrant
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divoplade writes:
> Le lundi 05 avril 2021 à 19:45 +0100, Pierre Langlois a écrit :
>> Do you know at which guix commit this happened? I'm wondering which
>> version of libvirt triggered this. AFAICT, right now, if you create
>> a
>> fresh VM using gnome-boxes, it initializes the xml config with the
>> qemu
>> in /run/current-system/profile, which looks like the right thing to
>> do.
>
> I think my system did not auto-upgrade for some time because of a bug
> in org-html-export-to-html that broke one of my packages (the bug is,
> there’s an explicit comment to indicate a license for a script and that
> comment is not XHTML). I don’t know which commit did that, but the
> faulty system was between that commit and 24h before. Or there was
> another earlier problem, and I can’t help, sorry.
>
> You’re right, now that I upgraded it’s fixed.
Cool :-), closing the bug then!
Thanks,
Pierre
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