>    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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