control: severity -1 grave Hi, On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 12:36:42PM +0100, Alexandru Geana wrote: > Package: libvirt0 > Version: 3.0.0-2 > Severity: important > > I am trying to create a mips based vm, but it seems that libvirt does > not support this architecture in the current debian testing. > > If I run 'virsh capabilities', there is no mention of mips or variants > like mipsel, mips64, mips64el. If I try to make a vm with virt-manager, > mips is not an option in the architecture menu. If I try to make a vm > from an xml file with 'virsh create vm.xml' I get the output > > error: Failed to create domain from vm.xml > error: invalid argument: could not find capabilities for arch=mips > > I do have qemu-system-mips installed (also from package management) and > I can start the machine with qemu directly, so at least this excludes > qemu being the problem.
The problem is that libvirt fails to probe CPU definitions on mips. I'll have a look. Taggig as grave since this breaks a lot of existing VM configurations. Cheers, -- Guido
