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Author: Mario Marietto
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] tryng to install virt-manager on Devuan 4 : ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'
yeah,it's a wrapper,but comfortable. I have already scripted qemu to run
the guest os directly. But I also want to understand why it does not work
and I want to use it. Don't you like to solve problems ? Am I the only
masochistic guy on the planet ? :)

On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 11:31 PM onefang <onefang_devuan@???>
wrote:

> If you are going to all this trouble, just dump virt and script qemu
> directly. virt is merely a wrapper, and it doesn't cover everything.
>
> On 2023-08-21 14:19:47, Mario Marietto via Dng wrote:
> >    Another round,another problem. Probably I'm a little bit masochistic
> >    because what I do everyday is to find problems to solve them,like a
> lot of
> >    computer enthusiasts. This time I'm trying to use qemu 5.1 with
> >    virt-manager and libvirt. Devuan 4 is the host o.s that I'm running
> on my
> >    ARM chromebook. By default it uses qemu and its dependencies,version
> 5.2.
> >    I remember that I can't use qemu 5.2,because it doesn't have any
> support
> >    for KVM. For this reason,I've compiled qemu 5.1 from source. Below I
> shown
> >    how I have configured it such as a little piece of compilation
> messages :
> >    apt install libgtk-3-dev libpulse-dev libgbm-dev libspice-protocol-dev
> >    libspice-server-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libepoxy-dev
> >    cd /usr/share
> >    mv qemu qemu_

> >
> >    cd /usr/lib
> >    mv qemu qemu_

> >
> >    cd /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf
> >    mv qemu qemu_

> >
> >    cd /usr/lib/ipxe
> >    mv qemu qemu_

> >
> >    cd /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/
> >    mv qemu qemu_
> >    mv qemu-kvm qemu-kvm_
> >    mv qemu-system-i386 qemu-system-i386_
> >    mv qemu-system-x86_64 qemu-system-x86_64_
> >    cd /usr/bin
> >    mv qemu-system-arm qemu-system-arm_
> >    cp /root/Desktop/qemu-v5.1.0/arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm /usr/bin
> >    CFLAGS=-Wno-error ./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu
> --enable-opengl
> >    --enable-gtk --enable-kvm --enable-guest-agent --enable-spice
> >    --audio-drv-list="oss pa" --enable-libusb

> >
> >    install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/share/qemu"
> >    install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/var"/run
> >    install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/include"
> >    install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/bin"
> >    install -c -m 0755 qemu-ga qemu-keymap ivshmem-client ivshmem-server
> >    qemu-nbd qemu-storage-daemon qemu-img qemu-io qemu-edid
> "/usr/local/bin"
> >    strip "/usr/local/bin/qemu-ga" "/usr/local/bin/qemu-keymap"
> >    "/usr/local/bin/ivshmem-client" "/usr/local/bin/ivshmem-server"
> >    "/usr/local/bin/qemu-nbd" "/usr/local/bin/qemu-storage-daemon"
> >    "/usr/local/bin/qemu-img" "/usr/local/bin/qemu-io"
> >    "/usr/local/bin/qemu-edid"
> >    install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/libexec"
> >    install -c -m 0755 scsi/qemu-pr-helper qemu-bridge-helper
> >    "/usr/local/libexec"
> >    strip "/usr/local/libexec/qemu-pr-helper"
> >    "/usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper"
> >    set -e; for x in bios.bin bios-256k.bin bios-microvm.bin sgabios.bin
> >    vgabios.bin vgabios-cirrus.bin vgabios-stdvga.bin vgabios-vmware.bin
> >    vgabios-qxl.bin vgabios-virtio.bin vgabios-ramfb.bin
> >    vgabios-bochs-display.bin vgabios-ati.bin openbios-sparc32
> >    openbios-sparc64 openbios-ppc QEMU,tcx.bin QEMU,cgthree.bin
> pxe-e1000.rom
> >    pxe-eepro100.rom pxe-ne2k_pci.rom pxe-pcnet.rom pxe-rtl8139.rom
> >    pxe-virtio.rom efi-e1000.rom efi-eepro100.rom efi-ne2k_pci.rom
> >    efi-pcnet.rom efi-rtl8139.rom efi-virtio.rom efi-e1000e.rom
> >    efi-vmxnet3.rom qemu-nsis.bmp bamboo.dtb canyonlands.dtb
> >    petalogix-s3adsp1800.dtb petalogix-ml605.dtb multiboot.bin
> linuxboot.bin
> >    linuxboot_dma.bin kvmvapic.bin pvh.bin s390-ccw.img s390-netboot.img
> >    slof.bin skiboot.lid palcode-clipper u-boot.e500
> >    u-boot-sam460-20100605.bin qemu_vga.ndrv edk2-licenses.txt
> >    hppa-firmware.img opensbi-riscv32-sifive_u-fw_jump.bin
> >    opensbi-riscv32-virt-fw_jump.bin opensbi-riscv64-sifive_u-fw_jump.bin
> >    opensbi-riscv64-virt-fw_jump.bin; do \
> >            install -c -m 0644 /root/Desktop/qemu-v5.1.0/pc-bios/$x
> >    "/usr/local/share/qemu"; \
> >    done
> >    set -e; for x in pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd pc-bios/edk2-arm-code.fd
> >    pc-bios/edk2-arm-vars.fd pc-bios/edk2-i386-code.fd
> >    pc-bios/edk2-i386-secure-code.fd pc-bios/edk2-i386-vars.fd
> >    pc-bios/edk2-x86_64-code.fd pc-bios/edk2-x86_64-secure-code.fd; do \
> >            install -c -m 0644 $x "/usr/local/share/qemu"; \
> >    done
> >    install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/share/qemu/firmware"
> >    set -e; tmpf=$(mktemp); trap 'rm -f -- "$tmpf"' EXIT; \
> >    for x in 50-edk2-i386-secure.json 50-edk2-x86_64-secure.json
> >    60-edk2-aarch64.json 60-edk2-arm.json 60-edk2-i386.json
> >    60-edk2-x86_64.json; do \
> >            sed -e 's,@DATADIR@,/usr/local/share/qemu,' \
> >                    "/root/Desktop/qemu-v5.1.0/pc-bios/descriptors/$x" >
> >    "$tmpf"; \
> >            install -c -m 0644 "$tmpf" \
> >                    "/usr/local/share/qemu/firmware/$x"; \
> >    done
> >    for s in 16x16 24x24 32x32 48x48 64x64 128x128 256x256 512x512; do \
> >            mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/${s}/apps"; \
> >            install -c -m 0644
> >    /root/Desktop/qemu-v5.1.0/ui/icons/qemu_${s}.png \
> >                    "/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/${s}/apps/qemu.png"; \
> >    done; \
> >    mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps"; \
> >    install -c -m 0644 /root/Desktop/qemu-v5.1.0/ui/icons/qemu_32x32.bmp \
> >            "/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/qemu.bmp"; \
> >    mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps"; \
> >    install -c -m 0644 /root/Desktop/qemu-v5.1.0/ui/icons/qemu.svg \
> >            "/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qemu.svg"
> >    mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/applications"
> >    install -c -m 0644 /root/Desktop/qemu-v5.1.0/ui/qemu.desktop \
> >            "/usr/local/share/applications/qemu.desktop"
> >    make -C po install
> >    make[1]: Entering directory '/root/Desktop/qemu-v5.1.0/po'
> >    for obj in bg.mo de_DE.mo fr_FR.mo hu.mo it.mo sv.mo tr.mo zh_CN.mo;
> do \
> >        base=$(basename $obj .mo); \
> >        install -d /usr/local/share/locale/$base/LC_MESSAGES; \
> >        install -m644 $obj
> /usr/local/share/locale/$base/LC_MESSAGES/qemu.mo;
> >    \
> >    done
> >    make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/Desktop/qemu-v5.1.0/po'
> >    install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/share/qemu/keymaps"
> >    set -e; for x in da     en-gb  et  fr     fr-ch  is  lt  no  pt-br  sv
> >    ar      de     en-us  fi  fr-be  hr     it  lv  nl         pl  ru
> th
> >    de-ch  es     fo  fr-ca  hu     ja  mk  pt  sl     tr bepo    cz; do \
> >            install -c -m 0644
> /root/Desktop/qemu-v5.1.0/pc-bios/keymaps/$x
> >    "/usr/local/share/qemu/keymaps"; \
> >    done
> >    install -c -m 0644 /root/Desktop/qemu-v5.1.0/trace-events-all
> >    "/usr/local/share/qemu/trace-events-all"
> >    These are the resulting versions of my frankenstein operation :
> >    root@devuan:/usr/share# virsh version
> >    Compiled against library: libvirt 7.0.0
> >    Using library: libvirt 7.0.0
> >    Using API: QEMU 7.0.0
> >    Running hypervisor: QEMU 5.1.0

> >
> >    At this point I've run virt-manager. It has been able to detect
> qemu,but I
> >    get the following error :
> >    Warning : Failed to set up UEFI. The Libvirt version does not support
> >    UEFI. Install options are limited.
> >    Do you have some suggestions to give me to fix this error ? I'm sure
> to
> >    have missed something, thanks.

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