Re: [libvirt-users] Connecting libvirt to manually compiled QEMU

Eric Blake
Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:09:19 -0000

On 03/04/2014 05:12 AM, Asadullah Hussain wrote:
> Hello I have manually compiled a customized qemu (1.4.0) which runs fine on
> its own (create VM etc) but I want to access this qemu through libvirt
> (virt-manager, virsh etc).
>
> But the libvirt driver only looks into "/usr/bin" for qemu
binaries, how
> can I tell libvirt to connect to my qemu which is placed at
> "/home/user/qemu" directory.

Libvirt only looks into precompiled locations (default to /usr/bin) if
you fail to specify an explicit location; but you can force libvirt to
use your version of qemu by specifying the <emulator> element under
<devices> in your domain XML.

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