Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 814814
qemu has no 'qemu' binary
Last modified: 2013-01-09 07:00:54 EST
Description of problem: $ which qemu /usr/bin/which: no qemu in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/c0rnel/.local/bin:/home/c0rnel/bin) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -q qemu qemu-1.0-11.fc17.i686 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: qemu binary should be present after installing qemu Additional info: i thought that maybe some things have changed and i don't know about it. so i installed the qemu launcher. it also complained that the 'qemu' binary is missing.
QEMU binaries are called qemu-kvm, qemu-system-i386, qemu-system-x86_64. Is qemu launcher installed from a Fedora package?
of course, the launcher was installed from official fedora repos. i've also checked if any other of the qemu\* packages should be installed, and i've not seen anyone. i'll check again anyway, asap, on a machine that is available right now. otoh, if i'll create a symlink to qemu-i386, called qemu, will this "fix" the problem?
btw, i've forgot to mention: looking in the qemu.spec, i've noticed that the source is not from qemu, but from qemu-kvm.
Creating a symlink to qemu-system-i386 or qemu-system-x86_64 will fix the problem. Moving the bug to qemu-launcher.
from qemu.spec: Source0: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/kvm/qemu-kvm-%{version}.tar.gz Source1: qemu.binfmt
To quote the QEMU 1.0 release notes about why the 'qemu' binary went away: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-12/msg00121.html "* i386-softmmu is no longer named ''qemu'' but instead referred to as ''qemu-system-i386'' for better consistency with other targets. A new tool is likely to be introduced that uses the ''qemu'' name so distributions are advised to not undo this change."
Since qemu-launcher is orphaned, I'm just closing this bug as WONTFIX.