[Bug 1418221] [NEW] internal error: Cannot find suitable emulator for ppc64le

[Scott Moser]

Public bug reported:

on ppc64el (with 'uname -m' of ppc64le), libvirt will complain:
 libvirt: QEMU Driver error : internal error: Cannot find suitable emulator for ppc64le

This is easily reproducible with the python-libvirt bindings:

$ sudo apt-get install python-libvirt libvirtd-bin qemu-system-ppc
$ python -c 'import libvirt; libvirt.open().getVersion(); print("GOOD")'
libvirt: QEMU Driver error : internal error: Cannot find suitable emulator for ppc64le
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 3679, in getVersion
    if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virConnectGetVersion() failed', conn=self)
libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: Cannot find suitable emulator for ppc64le

The issue here is that it raises exception, which is not expected in
nova-compute at least.

A workaround can be acheived via:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64 /usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64le
$ sudo stop libvirt-bin; sudo start libvirt-bin

** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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