qemu: fail before running hostagent when QEMU is too old
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enhancement
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Description
### Description
Need a reasonable QEMU, something like qemu-system 4+
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The hostagent fails when running on RHEL 7, without a clear reason.
Better to state up front, that it needs something newer than 1.5.3
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Research direction
No file or test is named in the issue. Start by locating the QEMU version detection and hostagent startup entry point, then identify the existing tests for this path. Done means unsupported QEMU versions fail before hostagent runs with a clear requirement message.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- infrastructure
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100