Arch Linux

Description: libvirt 1.0.6-1 - libvirtd will not start without KVM or QEMU installed

After installing LXC, bridge-utils, and libvirt from the official repos, libvirtd will not start. It seems to expect KVM and/or QEMU to be installed. When starting libvirtd (systemctl start libvirtd.service) it does not report an error on the console however libvirtd never starts. Here is the output from "journalctl -xu libvirtd.service":

Jun 10 15:05:29 asgard systemd[1]: Starting Virtualization daemon...
-- Subject: Unit libvirtd.service has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit libvirtd.service has begun starting up.
Jun 10 15:05:29 asgard systemd[1]: Started Virtualization daemon.
-- Subject: Unit libvirtd.service has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit libvirtd.service has finished starting up.
--
-- The start-up result is done.
Jun 10 15:05:30 asgard libvirtd[12809]: libvirt version: 1.0.6
Jun 10 15:05:30 asgard libvirtd[12809]: Cannot check dnsmasq binary /sbin/dnsmasq: No such file or directory
Jun 10 15:05:30 asgard libvirtd[12809]: Cannot check dnsmasq binary /sbin/dnsmasq: No such file or directory
Jun 10 15:05:30 asgard libvirtd[12809]: [202B blob data]
Jun 10 15:05:30 asgard libvirtd[12809]: Could not find 'ebtables' executable
Jun 10 15:05:30 asgard libvirtd[12809]: internal error Failed to find path for dmidecode binary
Jun 10 15:05:30 asgard libvirtd[12809]: invalid argument: Failed to parse group 'kvm'
Jun 10 15:05:30 asgard libvirtd[12809]: Initialization of QEMU state driver failed
Jun 10 15:05:30 asgard libvirtd[12809]: Driver state initialization failed

Note that all of those errors are bold white with the exception of "Could not find 'ebtables' executable" which is bold red. I did try to install just ebtables to see if that would allow libvirtd to start even though it's not listed as a hard dependency, but no luck.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.

libvirt 1.0.6-1

I am trying to use libvirt for LXC only (no KVM or QEMU or other virtualization) and cannot get libvirtd to start. I checked to see if I simply needed to disable an option in /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf but there was nothing of the sort. I googled, check bugs here, asked in IRC (both #archlinux on freenode and #virt on OFTC). Folks in #virt did state that KVM/QEMU is not required to run libvirtd.

Steps to reproduce:

Install Arch
Install LXC, bridge-utils, libvirt: pacman -S lxc bridge-utils libvirt
Attempt to start libvirtd: systemctl start libvirtd.service
Check to see if libvirtd is running: ps aux | grep -i virt
Find out why it is not: journalctl -xu libvirtd.service