[virt-tools-list] virt-manager: Switching between kvm and plain qemu

[Cole Robinson]

On 04/22/2015 03:26 AM, Pavel Fedin wrote:
>  Hello!
>  In virt-manager v0.9 it was possible to switch between qemu (interpreter
> mode) and KVM when creating new ARM virtual machine. In v1 this possibility
> is gone, and it always attempts to create KVM-based machine. This is bad
> because not everything can be done with KVM. The limitation of KVM is that
> guest CPU should be the same as host one. For example, i cannot run ARMv5
> guest (like Integrator) on Cortex-A15 host using KVM. This gets especially
> nasty because virt-manager attempts to instantly run just created machine,
> and if running fails (it does in this case) it simply refuses to create it,
> so that i cannot use virsh in order to fix it up.
>  There is still "Virtualization type" selector widget, but it is hidden if
> there is only one choice. For testing purposes i tried to force-enable it,
> and it lists only 'qemu'. virt-manager somehow substitutes this with "kvm"
> by itself.
>  Can old behavior (choice between "kvm" and "qemu" variants) be restored ?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Pavel Fedin
> Expert Engineer
> Samsung Electronics Research center Russia

Can you file a bug report against upstream virt-manager?

https://virt-manager.org/bugs/

Thanks,
Cole