[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] kvm: Improve upgrade notes when facing unsupported kernels

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.
> 

True. Hmm, wasn't there the plan to fix this by carrying them in-tree?

Jan


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