"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 its limits, so scripting
qemu directly is much easier".
you touched the very heart of the question. To allow a software or a piece
of hardware to do things which they were not expected to do is my
ultimate goal. I think that it is stimulating and it allows me to fight
against the rules that will never do what makes me happy or what is for me
cheaper. So I spend my whole days programming old software and old hardware
to extend their life (yes,I'm retired from work). And anyway,I don't know
if virt-manager has some limitations in the scenario where I am working.
Probably I make some mistakes due to my inexperience and lack of knowledge.
Where do you live ? Even here,where I live,there is a crisis. I think it is
increasing all over the western world. I have a theory for this....
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 12:36 AM onefang <onefang_devuan@???>
wrote:
> 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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