From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: "Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_F=E4?=@gnu.org,
rber <andreas.faerber@web.de>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] kvm: Improve upgrade notes when facing unsupported kernels
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:38:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2B8A9F.4060709@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A2B88B1.4060005@web.de>
Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Users complained that it is not obvious what to do when kvm refuses to
> build or run due to an unsupported host kernel, so let's improve the
> hints.
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 42d46f2..8ccb58c 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -1158,7 +1158,9 @@ EOF
> | grep "error: " \
> | awk -F "error: " '{if (NR>1) printf(", "); printf("%s",$2);}'`
> if test "$kvmerr" != "" ; then
> - kvm="no - (${kvmerr})"
> + kvm="no - (${kvmerr})\n\
> + NOTE: To enable KVM support, update your kernel to 2.6.29+ or install \
> +recent kvm-kmod from http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm."
> fi
>
Installing kvm-mod is insufficient, you need the headers from somewhere.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-07 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-07 9:30 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: Improve upgrade notes when facing unsupported kernels Jan Kiszka
2009-06-07 9:38 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-06-07 9:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-06-07 9:45 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-07 9:51 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-06-07 9:53 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-07 9:57 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-06-07 10:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-07 13:47 ` Blue Swirl
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