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bug#31365: libvirt/virt-manager: Embeds full path to qemu-system in save
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Mike Gerwitz |
Subject: |
bug#31365: libvirt/virt-manager: Embeds full path to qemu-system in saved .xml files |
Date: |
Fri, 04 May 2018 21:24:59 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 17:01:03 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> When i create a new libvirt instance with virt-manager, it embeds the
> full path to the qemu binary used at the time. For the machine named
> "networkboot":
>
> # grep qemu-system /etc/libvirt/qemu/networkboot.xml
>
> <emulator>/gnu/store/0rzb7rjri2kb258j58asndw2pnp0xv9p-qemu-2.11.1/bin/qemu-system-x86_64:</emulator>
>
> If I later run "guix gc" and it happens to remove this particular qemu
> version, the system no longer runs, of course:
>
> # virsh start networkboot
> error: Failed to start domain networkboot
> error: Cannot check QEMU binary
>
> /gnu/store/0rzb7rjri2kb258j58asndw2pnp0xv9p-qemu-2.11.1/bin/qemu-system-x86_64:
> No such file or directory
Thanks for looking into this; I hit this problem last night but hadn't
had the time to research.
I encountered this issue the same way (after a `guix gc').
> It also means each virtual machine may be running on an older version of
> qemu, for better or worse.
Yes, I was concerned by that as well. :X VMs would not benefit from
security fixes, which is to me is the more important issue here.
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