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Pre-requirements git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git git clone git://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi.git http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-1.0.0.tar.gz (4/12/12) aptitude install libvdeplug2 libvdeplug2-dev libaio1 libaio-dev libcap-dev libattr1-dev libsdl-dev libxml2-dev Building libiscsi: ./autogen.sh ./configure make && make install qemu: ./configure –enable-kvm –enable-vde –enable-virtfs –enable-linux-aio –enable-libiscsi –enable-sdl –target-list=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu,i386-linux-user,x86_64-linux-user –audio-drv-list=alsa make && make install libvirt: (maybe you should build libvirt with python < v3.2) ./configure [...] configure: Drivers [...]

THANKS Microsoft for this self-explanatory error message during a installation: “Windows is unable to install to the selected location. Error: 0×80300001.” You should write “FOOOOO! Maybe you have the wrong CD/DVD in your drive.” (I had the virtio drivers cd in my drive…)

Because libvirt self is using the qemu monitor to mange the guests, it is not available for the user. Since version 0.8.6 [1] its possbile to send a command throught libvirt to the monitor. virsh qemu-monitor-command <domain> <command> The problem is that you must use the QMP format to send a command like $ virsh [...]