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Author: onefang
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Subject: Re: [DNG] tryng to install virt-manager on Devuan 4 : ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'
There's "solving problems" and there's "finding out some tool isn't
suited to the job". I'm a programmer, so "virt isn't letting me do the
things I want to do coz it's a limited wrapper and the things I want to do
are beyond it's limits, so scripting qemu directly is much easier".

There's just lots of things qemu can do that virt doesn't know how to
tell it to do.

As for solving problems, when the world stops sending me new problems
like I got nothing better to do, then I'll love to get back to solving
the fun problems. Right now it's having to move for the second time this
year, in the middle of a country wide rental crisis, where I'm beginning
to suspect the real estate agents are just making things harder to raise
the desperation levels, so they can raise prices. And every third email
I'm getting from them is just proving how incompetent they are. Latest
email is telling me the inspection for a home has been cancelled, I had
already inspected it and turned it down. Pffft

On 2023-08-22 00:07:19, Mario Marietto via Dng wrote:
>    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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