[closed]Qemu showing not installed but it is

Question

Hi, I was installing libquestfs to enable me to retrieve data from a vmdk file. The install went fine but then stopped insisting that qemu be installed when it is. I have the version from extra installed, does anyone have an idea of how to show that it is indeed installed?
thanks in advance.
--jerry
Pacman does see it as installed.
questfs-browser was the original package that I attempted to install, it failed on the libguestfs portion.
Last edited by jk121960 (2012-05-22 01:06:41)

Answer 1

ok that worked much better but now libguestfs is whining about a help flag on qemu (-help) but the help flag is (-h) ?
checking for qemu-kvm... no
checking for qemu-x86_64... /usr/bin/qemu-x86_64
checking that /usr/bin/qemu-x86_64 -help works... no
configure: error: in `/root/Software/builds/libguestfs/src/libguestfs-1.16.20':
configure: error: /usr/bin/qemu-x86_64 -help: command failed.
This could be a very old version of qemu, or qemu might not be
working.
See `config.log' for more details
this version of qemu is up to date it is in extra.
Here is the portion of config.log that is from that part of the transaction.
25484 configure:47080: checking that /usr/bin/qemu-x86_64 -help works
25485 usage: qemu-x86_64 [options] program [arguments...]
25486 Linux CPU emulator (compiled for x86_64 emulation)
25487
25488 Options and associated environment variables:
25489
25490 Argument Env-variable Description
25491 -h print this help
25492 -g port QEMU_GDB wait gdb connection to 'port'
25493 -L path QEMU_LD_PREFIX set the elf interpreter prefix to 'path'
25494 -s size QEMU_STACK_SIZE set the stack size to 'size' bytes
25495 -cpu model QEMU_CPU select CPU (-cpu ? for list)
25496 -E var=value QEMU_SET_ENV sets targets environment variable (see below)
25497 -U var QEMU_UNSET_ENV unsets targets environment variable (see below)
25498 -0 argv0 QEMU_ARGV0 forces target process argv[0] to be 'argv0'
25499 -r uname QEMU_UNAME set qemu uname release string to 'uname'
25500 -B address QEMU_GUEST_BASE set guest_base address to 'address'
25501 -R size QEMU_RESERVED_VA reserve 'size' bytes for guest virtual address space
25502 -d options QEMU_LOG activate log
25503 -p pagesize QEMU_PAGESIZE set the host page size to 'pagesize'
25504 -singlestep QEMU_SINGLESTEP run in singlestep mode
25505 -strace QEMU_STRACE log system calls
25506 -version QEMU_VERSION display version information and exit
25507
25508 Defaults:
25509 QEMU_LD_PREFIX = /usr/gnemul/qemu-x86_64
25510 QEMU_STACK_SIZE = 8388608 byte
25511 QEMU_LOG = /tmp/qemu.log
25512
25513 You can use -E and -U options or the QEMU_SET_ENV and
25514 QEMU_UNSET_ENV environment variables to set and unset
25515 environment variables for the target process.
25516 It is possible to provide several variables by separating them
25517 by commas in getsubopt(3) style. Additionally it is possible to
25518 provide the -E and -U options multiple times.
25519 The following lines are equivalent:
25520 -E var1=val2 -E var2=val2 -U LD_PRELOAD -U LD_DEBUG
25521 -E var1=val2,var2=val2 -U LD_PRELOAD,LD_DEBUG
25522 QEMU_SET_ENV=var1=val2,var2=val2 QEMU_UNSET_ENV=LD_PRELOAD,LD_DEBUG
25523 Note that if you provide several changes to a single variable
25524 the last change will stay in effect.
25525 configure:47086: result: no
25526 configure:47088: error: in `/root/Software/builds/libguestfs/src/libguestfs-1.16.20':
25527 configure:47090: error: /usr/bin/qemu-x86_64 -help: command failed.
25528
25529 This could be a very old version of qemu, or qemu might not be
25530 working.
25531
25532 See `config.log' for more details
25533
25534 ## ---------------- ##
25535 ## Cache variables. ##
25536 ## ---------------- ##
your help is greatly appreciated.
--jerry
Last edited by jk121960 (2012-05-11 23:20:59)