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Bug 998692 - unsupported configuration: This QEMU doesn't support virtio scsi controller [code=67 domain=10]
Summary: unsupported configuration: This QEMU doesn't support virtio scsi controller [...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 995883
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libvirt
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Libvirt Maintainers
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: TRACKER-bugs-affecting-libguestfs
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Reported: 2013-08-19 19:24 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2013-08-20 14:48 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-08-20 14:48:02 UTC
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2013-08-19 19:24:36 UTC 
Description of problem:

libvirt cannot create virtio-scsi-using VMs in Rawhide.

The error is simply as in the summary:
unsupported configuration: This QEMU doesn't support virtio scsi controller [code=67 domain=10]
with no other information.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

qemu 1.6.0-1.fc20
libvirt 1.1.1-2.fc20

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to run (eg) libguestfs-test-tool on Fedora 20, or any
   other libguestfs program / tool.

Additional info:

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/843/5830843/build.log
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2013-08-19 21:02:04 UTC 
Strangely this was only seen on i686.  It doesn't happen on x86-64.
Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2013-08-19 21:40:40 UTC 
qemu.i686 appears to be pretty broken:

$ qemu-system-i386 --help
qemu-system-i386: symbol lookup error: qemu-system-i386: undefined symbol: rbd_aio_flush

I opened a new bug about this: bug 998722

Maybe this is the cause of the current bug, but shouldn't
libvirt give a more obvious error if qemu won't run at all?
Comment 3 Martin Kletzander 2013-08-20 08:53:54 UTC 
qemu-kvm stopped supporting 'virtio-scsi' model of 'scsi' controller.  libvirt 1.1.1-2.fc20 should have my commit b7f1c0c38729e5eba44ba134b93b1b95a4dae8d8 in, so it means libguestfs is requesting particularly this model.  The error describes exactly what is going on, you can check that by running:

qemu-kvm -device '?'

especially:

qemu-kvm -device '?' 2>&1 | grep '"virtio-scsi"'
Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2013-08-20 09:43:02 UTC 
(In reply to Martin Kletzander from comment #3)
> qemu-kvm stopped supporting 'virtio-scsi' model of 'scsi' controller. 
> libvirt 1.1.1-2.fc20 should have my commit
> b7f1c0c38729e5eba44ba134b93b1b95a4dae8d8 in, so it means libguestfs is
> requesting particularly this model.

As noted above, this works fine on x86-64, but fails on identical
packages on i686.  Also as noted, qemu.i686 is totally broken
(bug 998722).

> The error describes exactly what is
> going on, you can check that by running:
> 
> qemu-kvm -device '?'
> 
> especially:
> 
> qemu-kvm -device '?' 2>&1 | grep '"virtio-scsi"'

On x86-64:

$ qemu-kvm -device '?' 2>&1 | grep '"virtio-scsi"'
$ qemu-kvm -device '?' 2>&1 | grep '"virtio-scsi-pci"'
name "virtio-scsi-pci", bus PCI, categories "Storage"

On i686 [see bug 998722]:

$ qemu-kvm -device '?'
/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: undefined symbol: rbd_aio_flush

libguestfs uses the following XML for specifying the device (and
has for ages):

  <devices>
    <controller type="scsi" index="0" model="virtio-scsi"/>
    <disk device="disk" type="file">
      <source file="/tmp/libguestfs6JEnee/scratch.1"/>
      <target dev="sda" bus="scsi"/>
      <driver name="qemu" type="raw" cache="none"/>
      <address type="drive" controller="0" bus="0" target="0" unit="0"/>
    </disk>
Comment 5 Daniel Berrangé 2013-08-20 09:46:15 UTC 
The missing symbol error will have totally fubar'd libvirt's capabilities detection. So that'll be why we don't detect virtio scsi support on i686. Fixing bug 998722 ought to fix this bug too.
Comment 6 Richard W.M. Jones 2013-08-20 09:59:56 UTC 
(In reply to Daniel Berrange from comment #5)
> The missing symbol error will have totally fubar'd libvirt's capabilities
> detection. So that'll be why we don't detect virtio scsi support on i686.
> Fixing bug 998722 ought to fix this bug too.

Can the error message not be improved?

qemu has long supported -help (it was added in Jan 2007), so I would
suggest that we ignore any versions of qemu older than this, and
then if qemu -help prints an error, fail hard and display the error.
Comment 7 Daniel Berrangé 2013-08-20 10:04:02 UTC 
(In reply to Richard W.M. Jones from comment #6)
> (In reply to Daniel Berrange from comment #5)
> > The missing symbol error will have totally fubar'd libvirt's capabilities
> > detection. So that'll be why we don't detect virtio scsi support on i686.
> > Fixing bug 998722 ought to fix this bug too.
> 
> Can the error message not be improved?
> 
> qemu has long supported -help (it was added in Jan 2007), so I would
> suggest that we ignore any versions of qemu older than this, and
> then if qemu -help prints an error, fail hard and display the error.

That might be possible. I have a vague recollection that -help would print to stderr rather than stdout in some older versions, but I might be mistaken in that.  Alternatively we might be able to check exit status of qemu -help to detect this kind of failure.
Comment 9 Richard W.M. Jones 2013-08-20 11:35:16 UTC 
AFAIK qemu doesn't do any module loading, so it's just completely
broken:

$ qemu-kvm -M none
/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: undefined symbol: rbd_aio_flush
$ qemu-kvm -M none -device \?
/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: undefined symbol: rbd_aio_flush
Comment 10 Cole Robinson 2013-08-20 14:48:02 UTC 
qemu needs a dep on a newer ceph-libs apparently, F19 is also affected

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 995883 ***
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