Bug 609741

Summary:	QEMU driver doesn't expect "qemu-kvm-devel" as version number
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	vekmitt <vekmitt-tekditt>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	berrange, crobinso, vekmitt-tekditt, xen-maint
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-03-17 14:35:41 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description vekmitt 2010-07-01 00:27:57 UTC

Description of problem:
Since I have some problems with qemu-kvm-0.12.4 I was told to try qemu.git. It seems that libvirt parses the version number only in the brackets, e.g. qemu-kvm-0.12.4 returns
> QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.4 (qemu-kvm-0.12.4), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
but qemu.git returns
> QEMU emulator version 0.12.50 (qemu-kvm-devel), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard


How reproducible:
Use qemu.git instead of an official release of QEMU.

  
Actual results:
libvirt doesn't start the virtual machine at all, it returns the following error (syslog):
> libvirtd: error : qemudParseHelpStr:1341 : internal error cannot parse /usr/bin/qemu-kvm version number in 'QEMU emulator version 0.12.50 (qemu-kvm-devel), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard'


Expected results:
libvirt should start qemu.git just like every other release of QEMU.

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2010-07-01 14:34:27 UTC

This is fixed upstream, a release just hasn't been cut yet. It should be within a couple weeks.

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2011-03-17 14:35:41 UTC

Don't know the exact commit, but this has been fixed for a few releases. Closing.