Bug 1178054

Summary:	gnome-boxes (libvirt) won't start my Windows XP virtual machine on Fedora 21: "QEMU 2.1.2 is too new for help parsing"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jean-François Fortin Tam <nekohayo>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	21	CC:	agedosier, awilliam, berrange, clalancette, crobinso, itamar, jforbes, jtomko, laine, libvirt-maint, veillard, virt-maint
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2015-01-01 21:12:12 UTC

Starting GNOME Boxes and trying to launch my Windows XP VM, I get a generic error about the VM not being able to be started. On the terminal, I get this instead:


(gnome-boxes:30174): Boxes-WARNING **: libvirt-broker.vala:47: Failed to update domain 'Windows XP.iso': Failed to set domain configuration: unsupported configuration: QEMU 2.1.2 is too new for help parsing

(gnome-boxes:30174): Boxes-WARNING **: machine.vala:576: Failed to start Windows XP Pro SP3: Unable to start domain: unsupported configuration: QEMU 2.1.2 is too new for help parsing

(gnome-boxes:30174): Boxes-WARNING **: machine.vala:576: Failed to start Windows XP Pro SP3: Unable to start domain: unsupported configuration: QEMU 2.1.2 is too new for help parsing

Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2015-01-29 21:48:17 UTC

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-December/msg00304.html suggests this error may actually indicate something else wrong (it seems this 'help parsing' only happens when something else has already gone wrong), FWIW.

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2015-04-16 18:15:05 UTC

Moving to POST to backport the error reporting fix at least

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-04-28 16:55:09 UTC

libvirt-1.2.9.3-1.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt-1.2.9.3-1.fc21

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-04-29 13:06:17 UTC

Package libvirt-1.2.9.3-1.fc21:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing libvirt-1.2.9.3-1.fc21'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-7150/libvirt-1.2.9.3-1.fc21
then log in and leave karma (feedback).