Re: qemu-xen is unavailable

[Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> Looking at the original email, the domain config file has type="pvh", so
> I don't think qemu is actually needed. And the domain is starting fine,
> so this message isn't really needed and would be a bug I guess.

Thanks for responding. Indeed, the "qemu" package is not installed on this 
machine, and looking closer, the Alpine folks did something to their 
Xen/Qemu packagesp[0][1]. I can't check right now but I'll test if the 
warning goes away with the "qemu" package installed.

Thanks again,
Christian.

[0] https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=9f064ced3
[1] https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=55d655af7

> I think it comes from libxl trying to figure out which QEMU to use even
> if it isn't going to be needed. And since there's no qemu to be found,
> the message is printed, even when qemu isn't needed.
> 
> I guess you have this message because you didn't install a qemu package
> (or qemu-xen), but you don't need the package as you are only starting a
> PVH guest.
> 
> The bug here is that libxl shouldn't print this message for PVH guest
> because it's confusing.
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