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Stonecraft
Asked: 2019-02-21 07:51:04 +0800 CST

Manually upgraded QEMU 3.1 does not support qxl video device

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I want to use the latest version of QEMU (3.1) with my installation of Ubuntu Server 18.04.2. I have managed to install it, but it seems that the new installation is not correctly connected to all the dependencies (or perhaps I need to manually upgrade other packages to get them in sync with my upgraded QEMU?)

the error I got was:

ERROR    unsupported configuration: this QEMU does not support 'qxl' video device
Removing disk 'WINVM.img'                                   |    0 B  00:00     
Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
  virsh --connect qemu:///system start myWINVM
otherwise, please restart your installation.

Do my suspicions about the cause of the problem seem reasonable? What should I try to get QXL working again (it was working before the QEMU upgrade).

virtualization kvm graphics qemu

1 Answers

  1. I got the similar error after building QEMU from sources. It needs every dependency already installed in the system when calling "./configure" because this is the step that detects system capabilities. If you compile QEMU and then install dependencies like spice, qxl, etc it won't detect them later and you need to recompile.

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