Troubleshooting instack-virt-setup Failures =========================================== * Due to a `bug in libvirt`_, it is possible for instack-virt-setup to fail with an error such as the following:: libvirt: QEMU Driver error : unsupported configuration: This QEMU doesn't support virtio scsi controller Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/libexec/openstack-tripleo/configure-vm", line 133, in main() File "/usr/libexec/openstack-tripleo/configure-vm", line 129, in main a = conn.defineXML(libvirt_template) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 3445, in defineXML if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainDefineXML() failed', conn=self) libvirt.libvirtError: unsupported configuration: This QEMU doesn't support virtio scsi controller The workaround is to do delete the libvirt capabilities cache and restart the service:: rm -Rf /var/cache/libvirt/qemu/capabilities/ systemctl restart libvirtd .. _bug in libvirt: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195882