QEMU/KVM GUI = AQEMU segmentation fault on slackware64 13.0!
 

short story: AQEMU (the most excellent QEMU/KVM GUI which is @ version 0.7.3 alpha 2) is ALWAYS segfaulting on me! AQEMU requires that I configure the location of "emulators" = "QEMU/KVM binaries", I suspect is the proper name. NO MATTER WHAT, I always get this error when telling it where the "emulatores" are located. the error may be straight forward, but I dont know how to fix, or what to do... here is there error ::

the long story *with as many details as I can pack in without being toooo long-winded* (yet some will hate me for this long of a post, please forgive me!): so... I've been doing some documentation of sorts for using virtualbox, kvm & qemu on slackware64 13.0 (and x86, but primarilly slackware64 13.0), if anyone is interested, u can see the page here -- also it explains how I have things setup on my box if someone needs that information in order to help answer my question. for quick reference, hardware-wise: I run an intel Q6600 CPU, 4gigs ram, ASUS nvidia 750i motherboard, nvidia GTX 285, etc...

I got KVM working via the kernel modules that came with my slackware64 "huge-2.6.29.6-smp" kernel, all I have to do is ::
from there, I downloaded and compiled KVM user-space code like so ::
this in turn put most of my QEMU-KVM binaries (please smack me if I am naming this wrong, I am still VERY new to QEMU and KVM - I come from the world of vmware, in search of the ultimate F/OSS virtualization tools/apps!) into /usr/local/bin - specifically ::
so far, so good = I am able to boot-up my win7x64 VM from QEMU-KVM via command-line, by running this command ::
command-line interaction with qemu/kvm is... easy, but I'd love to use a GUI ala virtualbox and/or vmware. so I poked around a little on the `net, and I found this gem = aqemu - and boy is she pretty! I installed aqemu per the README file for AQEMU-0.7.3-alpha2 (yes u read that right, the project is in an alpha state!) ::

(( of note, I musta told it to install to /usr, instead of /usr/local because AQEMU binary installed to /usr/bin/aqemu, and some other files installed to /usr/share/aqemu ))

my problem boils down to this, I can start AQEMU just fine (as a user, or root) - but I started getting baffled when AQEMU started popping up messages like "Emulators Not Found! Please Add Emulators." ... digging around the internet I found NOTHING (I musta be searching WRONG), so I just started to fool around, and it hit me... I think when AQEMU is asking for "emulators" I am thinking it means it needs to know where the binaries for /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 and such reside.

so, I start-up AQEMU => FILE => ADVANCES SETTINGS => the error "Emulators Not Found! Please Add Emulators." pops up ... I click OK ... and I am at the "emulators" configuration page (without configuring this page, AQEMU will NOT allow me to start ANY of my VMs!). Clicking the "FIND ALL EMULATORS" button results in nothing being found :cry:

if I start AQEMU from konsole, I can see what it is doing in the background when I click the FIND ALL EMULATORS BUTTON, which is this ::
so I then click "ADD" (while still in the AQEMU => FILE => ADVANCES SETTINGS menu) becuase the auto-magic "FIND ALL EMULATORS" is not working -- even if I create symlinks to the /usr/local/bin/qemu-img, /usr/local/bin/qemu-io, /usr/local/bin/qemu-nbd, and /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 files in /usr/bin - or any other directory that is in my $PATH environment variable...
upon clicking ADD, it now seems like I am "getting somewhere", I get this screen (jpeg attached to this post)
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since I only have qemu-img and qemu-system-x86_64 in that list, I go to tell it where the file resides, and AS SOON AS I CLICK /usr/local/bin/qemu-img or /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
AQEMU crashes due to a segmentation fault! no matter what! it always segfaults on me! this is what is being shown when I run AQEMU from Konsole in KDE4 on slackware64 13.0 ::
can someone tell me how to fix this issue, or what I am doing wrong, or suggest a webpage I can view to give me some clues... anyone? please! help! feel free to suggest a different QEMU/KVM GUI if you have a favorite too!

thanks in advance, I look forward to our correspondence :)
PS. please forgive the length of this message, it was the best I could do to keep it short (ha!) with giving as much detail as possible... I suck at this part

AQEMU looks like an interesting GUI for QEMU-KVM. I use QEMU-KVM a lot but with command line and startup scripts. I noticed a few links on the Freshmeat project page where they offer 32 bit and 64 bit static (pre-compiled) versions. I'll never install the pre-compiled versions but may create a package either using a SlackBuild approach or with src2pkg if I find some time.

You need to enter a Name (e.g. QEMU-KVM) and a valid binary path (e.g. /usr/bin) hit enter to read the path then select QEMU/KVM System that has a populated Binary File Name (e.g. qemu-system-x86_64).

BTW, the src2pkg version-1.9.9 line I used to build the package was:
There is a warning in the README file:
Good luck!

ya, I saw that... I will try building it yr way and see what I get! thanks so much for the suggestion!