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

Daniel P. Berrange
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:51:34 -0000

On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 02:09:19PM -0700, Eric Blake
wrote:
> 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.

Actually we will search through $PATH for QEMU binaries, so if you
install somewhere unusual, just make sure libvirtd sees an updated
$PATH env variable including the new location.


Regards,
Daniel
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