Arch Linux

ipatch

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Registered: 2014-05-14

Posts: 26

Using libvirt daemon with qemu in non standard location?

Hello I recently installed libvirt via pacman on my archlinux workstation, but I am still getting an error.  When I lauch the GUI frontend to libvirt "Virtual Machine Manager" and try to specify qemu / KVM in the "Add connection" dialog box, I'm getting the following error,

Unable to connect to libvirt.

internal error: Cannot find suitable emulator for x86_64

Presently, I'm building qemu from the git source, so I can get SPICE support, and in doing so I have qemu installed in a non standard location / path.  Qemu is installed in the following location, "/opt/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64"

Does anyone know how I can tell / specify to libvirt where my qemu install is located?