[one-users] Ubuntu 12.04 KVM package breaking opennebula (libvirt) templates

[Javier Fontan]

I haven't tried Ubuntu 12.04 but from what I've read kvm-spice only
adds SPICE [1] support. qemu-kvm should be enough for virtualizing
machines.

[1] http://spice-space.org/

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Shankhadeep Shome <shank15217 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well if I just install qemu-kvm package then it doesn't support hardware
> vms, it errors out. I think the change is that all hvm support has moved to
> kvm-qemu-spice package in Ubuntu 12.04 because I didn't explicitly pick that
> package. This wasn't the case with 11.10.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Giovanni Toraldo <me at gionn.net> wrote:
>>
>> 2012/4/23 Shankhadeep Shome <shank15217 at gmail.com>:
>> > I tried to add some Ubuntu 12.04 hosts into my cluster and had some
>> > problems
>> > deploying VMs on these new hosts.. turns out there was a change from
>> > 11.10..
>> >
>> > Changes to Ubuntu KVM packages...
>> >
>> > So for some reason Ubuntu 12.04 packages creates two kvm binary links
>> > breaking backward compatibility with libvirt templates
>>
>> This is true if you install the qemu-kvm-spice package instead of the
>> standard qemu-kvm, since /usr/bin/kvm is provided only in the package
>> without spice support.
>>
>> You can also simply symlink the spiced kvm to /usr/bin/kvm with:
>> $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/kvm-spice /usr/bin/kvm
>>
>> --
>> Giovanni Toraldo
>> http://gionn.net/about-me
>> http://it.linkedin.com/in/giovannitoraldo
>
>
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