Hi there! On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:34:38 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:18:00 +0100, Guido Günther wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 09:37:14AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: >>> Hi Lars, >>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:37:49AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: >>> > Package: libvirt-bin >>> > Version: 0.9.12-6~bpo60+1 >>> > Severity: normal >>> > Usertags: pca.it-virtualization >>> > >>> > Hi there! >>> > >>> > During today's upgrade I was surprised to read about the new qemu-kvm >>> > required by libvirt-bin and discovering that I was still using the old >>> > one: >>> >>> Do you remember what exactly broke with old QEMU from Squeeze? > > I did not, I was surprised of the note in the libvirt-bin's > debian/changelog given that even after the upgrade everything seemed to > work OK.
Something more that I discovered today: ===== root@tinello:/etc# dpkg-query -W qemu-kvm qemu-kvm 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze10 root@tinello:/etc# virsh list Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- 1 tinello-xp.pca.it running root@tinello:/etc# virsh destroy tinello-xp.pca.it error: Failed to destroy domain tinello-xp.pca.it error: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running root@tinello:/etc# apt-get -t squeeze-backports install qemu-kvm [...] The following NEW packages will be installed: ipxe-qemu libiscsi1 libspice-server1 sharutils The following packages will be upgraded: openbios-ppc openbios-sparc qemu-keymaps qemu-kvm qemu-system qemu-utils seabios vgabios [...] Setting up qemu-kvm (1.1.2+dfsg-5~bpo60+1) ... [...] root@tinello:/etc# virsh list Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- root@tinello:/etc# virsh start tinello-xp.pca.it Domain tinello-xp.pca.it started root@tinello:/etc# virsh list Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- 2 tinello-xp.pca.it running root@tinello:/etc# virsh destroy tinello-xp.pca.it Domain tinello-xp.pca.it destroyed root@tinello:/etc# ===== So there was a problem in recognizing domains with the old qemu-kvm. Please note that I now remember that I have seen the above message in the past, but unfortunately I did not actually pay attention. >> I agree that it's not a libvirt bug buy itself but the >> IMHO the best work around to keep users out of trouble when also using a >> newer virt-manager/virtinst. I'll add a more prominent note to the next >> upload. > > Thank you very much, simply adding the same debian/changelog entry to > debian/NEWS, with a link to this bug, is enough for me :-) Still true. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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