From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vhost_net_init returned -7
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:47:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090829204719.GA31449@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908281510.43523.iggy@theiggy.com>
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 03:10:43PM -0500, Brian Jackson wrote:
> I'm trying to tinker with vhost_net. I have a 2.6.31-rc4 host kernel patched
> to support vhost_net (v5) (along with ksm if it matters). The guest is a
> debian-5.0.2 (2.6.26) install CD for now. When the guest tries to load the
> virtio-net drivers, kvm closes and prints "vhost_net_init returned -7". KVM is
> patched with your patches from 20090817.
>
> I tried looking through the code but without adding some other debug code,
> it's not obvious where exactly it's failing. Was going to see if anyone (I
> know, not a lot of users yet) had any ideas before I dig too deep.
>
> --Iggy
What I think you miss is eventfd support from kvm module in kernel.
Patches for this are in Avi's kvm.git tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-29 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-28 20:10 vhost_net_init returned -7 Brian Jackson
2009-08-29 20:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-08-29 21:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-29 21:38 ` Brian Jackson
2009-08-30 5:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-31 17:33 ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-07 8:59 ` Dor Laor
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