Hi, I didnt pass prefix while building. So I tried *meson build -Dsystem=true*
It worked for me.Now virsh shows kvm and qemu in its capabilities and could create a new VM using virsh create. Thanks for your valuable time. Thanks, Shafnamol.N On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 6:40 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 01:57:24PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > > On 3/22/21 5:17 AM, shafnamol N wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am new to Libvirt and Qemu.I have installed Libvirt 7.1.0 and > > > qemu-kvm 4.2.0. > > > I configured and built libvirt based on instructions from > > > https://libvirt.org/compiling.html <https://libvirt.org/compiling.html > >. > > > But when i tried to create a VM using virsh it shows the following > error: > > > # virsh create /home/abc.xml > > > error: Failed to create domain from /home/abc.xml > > > error: invalid argument: could not find capabilities for arch=x86_64 > > > domaintype=kvm > > > > > > When i check the hypervisor capabilities ,it doest show qemu in guest > > > domain type. > > > # virsh capabilities > > > .................................... > > > ..................................... > > > </host> > > > > > > <guest> > > > <os_type>exe</os_type> > > > <arch name='x86_64'> > > > <wordsize>64</wordsize> > > > <emulator>/usr/local/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator> > > > <domain type='lxc'/> > > > </arch> > > > </guest> > > > > > > <guest> > > > <os_type>exe</os_type> > > > <arch name='i686'> > > > <wordsize>32</wordsize> > > > <emulator>/usr/local/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator> > > > > This smells suspicious. Perhaps you did not pass proper prefix (meson > > -Dsystem=true)? > > > > Anyway, libvirt tries to find qemu-system-$arch in $PATH and falls back > to > > /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm if no binary was found. So I suspect that maybe the > > directory you installed QEMU into is not in $PATH? > > This capabiliities output is showing an lxc:///system driver connection > too, not QEMU. So I suspect libvirt was perhaps built without QEMU > support ? > > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: https://berrange.com -o- > https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| > |: https://libvirt.org -o- > https://fstop138.berrange.com :| > |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- > https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| > >
