From: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 15:14:10 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: check if QEMU version is recent enough for machine type
X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?p=qemu-server.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=a77a53ae54586db0460dcd575cbc79be77372632

check if QEMU version is recent enough for machine type

...and show the user a more meaningful error otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
---

diff --git a/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
index e10461f..07cd7fe 100644
--- a/PVE/QemuServer.pm
+++ b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
@@ -3472,6 +3472,10 @@ sub config_to_command {
     my $machine_version = PVE::QemuServer::Machine::extract_version($machine_type, $kvmver);
     $kvm //= 1 if is_native($arch);
 
+    $machine_version =~ m/(\d+)\.(\d+)/;
+    die "QEMU version $kvmver is too old to run machine type $machine_type\n"
+	if !PVE::QemuServer::min_version($kvmver, $1, $2);
+
     if ($kvm) {
 	die "KVM virtualisation configured, but not available. Either disable in VM configuration or enable in BIOS.\n"
 	    if !defined kvm_version();