[libvirt] Re: [PATCH 0/3] A small example program

[Dave Allan]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:10:58PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I've just applied your 3 patches and built the example.
>> That went fine.  Then I tried to run it like this:
>>
>>      $ LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 libvirtd 2> log & pid=$!
>>      $ ./hellolibvirt
>>      Attempting to connect to hypervisor
>>      Connected to hypervisor at "qemu:///session"
>> ? -> Failed to get hypervisor version
> 
> This shows a place where the example program could use the libvirt 
> error information - it should have received error message to the 
> effect of
> 
>   'Cannot find QEMU binary /usr/bin/qemu'
> 
> when qemudExtractVersion failed to find the binary it wanted

I should illustrate getting the error messages in the example.  I'll put 
it in.  Did you deliberately break your system to provoke the failure? 
I had to rename /usr/bin/qemu to get it.

Dave