Description of problem: Different distributions have VirtualBox files in various locations. For example: /usr/lib/virtualbox /usr/lib/VirtualBox /opt/VirtualBox/ (and likely others) libvirt is presently hard coded to only check specific paths, therefore does not work properly if the VirtualBox installation is elsewhere. This should be fixed by passing a path to the libvirt "configure" script, something like: ./configure --with-virtualbox=/path/to/virtualbox If libvirt isn't given a path, then it should do a "best effort" guess, potentially probing common "known" paths. (solution suggestion by Eric Blake) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.8.1 How reproducible: Every time.
This is the patch submitted upstream by Matthias Bolte: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-June/msg00743.html
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle. Changing version to '14'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
The fix was included in upstream 0.8.2.