Re: virsh capabilities does not include qemu or kvm

[Thomas Huth]

On 22/03/2021 05.57, shafnamol N wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new  to Libvirt and Qemu.I have installed Libvirt 7.1.0 and qemu-kvm 4.2.0.
> I configured and built libvirt based on instructions from
> https://libvirt.org/compiling.html <https://libvirt.org/compiling.html>.
> But when i tried to create a VM using virsh it shows the following error:
> # virsh create /home/abc.xml
> error: Failed to create domain from /home/abc.xml
> error: invalid argument: could not find capabilities for arch=x86_64 
> domaintype=kvm
>
> When i check the hypervisor capabilities ,it doest show qemu or kvm in guest 
> domain type.

Try to run "virt-host-validate" ... maybe that helps to identify the problem.

 Thomas