Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 6/6/09, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Andreas Färber wrote:
>>
>>> Or as another example, I've been unable to try KVM with svn/git QEMU
>> because new capability defines keep being added that block compiling QEMU
>> with KVM from any mainstream distribution. With nobody here being able to
>> recommend a working distribution, that makes KVM a moot alternative,
>> especially on systems you can't install your own kernel modules on. I just
>> hope that Fedora 11 will let me try it.
>>  Try qemu-kvm.git, that should compile and run on almost anything (and is a
>> lot faster and more featureful than kvm support in qemu.git).
> 
> Maybe the backwards compatibility features should be ported to QEMU?
> For example, is there a workaround for
> #error Missing KVM capability KVM_CAP_DESTROY_MEMORY_REGION_WORKS
> ?

Given that we have always-up-to-date kvm-kmod packages with support down
to reasonable kernel versions, I would prefer to keep upstream clean
from old workarounds. They should only be needed for issues found very
recently (KVM_CAP_JOIN_MEMORY_REGIONS_WORKS) or that might be found in
the future.

Jan