From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Cristi Magherusan <Cristi.Magherusan@net.utcluj.ro>
Cc: "Fischer, Anna" <anna.fischer@hp.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: KVM for Linux 2.6.16?
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:02:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A597C92.9040609@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247161758.28820.40.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On 07/09/2009 08:49 PM, Cristi Magherusan wrote:
>
>> Is KVM not supposed to work on 2.6.16?
>>
> Hi Anna,
>
> I'm afraid that I have some bad news for you. Usually KVM versions are
> tailored to kernel versions contemporary with them. Version 87 is
> supposed to need 2.6.26 kernels and newer, IIRC. So for your 2.6.16 you
> should try some of the incipient KVM versions, and if you are lucky
> enough, they might work.
>
That's incorrect. We try to keep compatibility from 2.6.16 forward.
Due to the huge test matrix we often have problems, but once we get
automatic testing going this will improve.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-12 6:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-09 16:49 KVM for Linux 2.6.16? Fischer, Anna
2009-07-09 17:44 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-09 17:49 ` Cristi Magherusan
2009-07-09 18:22 ` Fischer, Anna
2009-07-09 19:27 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-12 6:02 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-07-16 22:27 ` Anthony Liguori
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