From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Cc: Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kvm or qemu-kvm?
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:35:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC4F672.8040908@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091001180635.GA32224@psychosis.jim.sh>
On 10/01/2009 08:06 PM, Jim Paris wrote:
> That's what I do. Just as a warning, if you're using the libvirt
> packages from Debian unstable, make sure you also install
> linux-libc-dev from unstable before building qemu-kvm.
>
> Otherwise, virtio networking will fail. The reason is that qemu-kvm
> will be built against the Lenny linux-libc-dev which does not have
> IFF_VNET_HDR, while the libvirt was built against a newer
> linux-libc-dev that did define IFF_VNET_HDR. If they don't agree then
> things break.
>
Isn't that a libvirt bug? libvirt shouldn't assume qemu supports
IFF_VNET_HDR just because it sees it.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-01 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 2:21 kvm or qemu-kvm? Ross Boylan
2009-10-01 1:51 ` Charles Duffy
2009-10-01 15:56 ` Ross Boylan
2009-10-01 16:42 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-01 16:51 ` Ross Boylan
2009-10-01 17:02 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-10 16:28 ` René Pfeiffer
2009-10-10 17:03 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-10-01 18:06 ` Jim Paris
2009-10-01 18:35 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-10-01 18:53 ` Jim Paris
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