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I thought so.

I don't want to remove my system install QEMU binaries, so I'm forcing
Nova's virt/libvirt/config.py to set the 'emulator' for devices to my
custom QEMU binary.

I _think_ this should work.  I haven't tried forcing libvirt to use a
non-standard QEMU before.

--
Wolf


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:55:04AM -0400, Wolfgang Richter wrote:
> > If I compile a custom QEMU and want to use these non-standard binaries
> when
> > starting instances, how do I override the defaults OpenStack uses via
> > libvirt?
> >
> > Is there an easy OpenStack option?
> >
> > Or do I need to implement a custom LibvirtDriver ?
>
> OpenStack delegates to Libvirt to pick the QEMU binary to use
>
> Libvirt in turns detects the QEMU binaries by searching $PATH.
>
> So if you install your own binaries, just make sure your
> install location is at the front of $PATH when starting
> the libvirtd daemon.
>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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