On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:45 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/10/2014 02:31 PM, Heiko Zinke wrote: >> Hi, >> >> with my recent qemu update from 1.6 to 2.0 I got the following error: >> >> * The kvm/qemu-kvm wrappers no longer exist, but your libvirt >> * instances are still pointing to it. Please update your >> * configs in /etc/libvirt/qemu/ to use the -enable-kvm flag >> * and the right system binary (e.g. qemu-system-x86_64). >> * ERROR: app-emulation/qemu-2.0.0::gentoo failed (pretend phase): >> * update your virt configs to not use qemu-kvm >> * >> * Call stack: >> * ebuild.sh, line 93: Called pkg_pretend >> * qemu-2.0.0.ebuild, line 225: Called die >> * The specific snippet of code: >> * die "update your virt configs to not use qemu-kvm" >> >> I found this bug which explains the why but sadly not the how. >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506566 >> >> I need to get rid of the reference to the /usr/bin/qemu-kvm shell script >> which >> is basically only a wrapper for "exec /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine >> accel=kvm "$@"" >> >> 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" >> >> How is this supposed to work? Do I need to create a custom shell skript or > >> just use /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 w/o the args an hope it magically uses >> kvm acceleration? > > I believe "accel=kvm" is obsolete now. "-enable-kvm" is the magic word > lately. Try "qemu-system-x86_64 -help" for more info than you want :) >
Reading through the source code, -enable-kvm seems to be equivalent to -machine accel=kvm.
