Re: qemu compiling error on ppc64: kvm.c:

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2011-02-04 15:43, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 04.02.2011, at 14:25, "Dushyant Bansal" <cs5070214@cse.iitd.ernet.in> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>  I am trying to install kvm on ppc64 system (imac G5). I have built
>> kernel with kvm module. When I try to install qemu, I am getting this
>> error
>>
>> $ ./configure --enable-kvm --target-list="ppc-softmmu"
>> $ make
>>
>> [...]
>>  CC    slirp/tftp.o
>>  CC    libdis/ppc-dis.o
>>  GEN   config-target.h
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/arch_init.o
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/cpus.o
>>  GEN   ppc-softmmu/hmp-commands.h
>>  GEN   ppc-softmmu/qmp-commands.h
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/monitor.o
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/machine.o
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/gdbstub.o
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/balloon.o
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/virtio-blk.o
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/virtio-balloon.o
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/virtio-net.o
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/virtio-serial-bus.o
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/virtio-pci.o
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/vhost_net.o
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/rwhandler.o
>>  CC    ppc-softmmu/kvm.o
>> /home/user/project/qemu/target-ppc/kvm.c: In function ‘kvm_arch_init_vcpu’:
>> /home/user/project/qemu/target-ppc/kvm.c:81: error: ‘struct kvm_sregs’ has
>> no member named ‘pvr’
> 
> Hrm. This means that your kernel headers in /usr/include/linux are too old. Can you try and find out which kernel version they are from please?

< 2.6.33. Lacking build-time KVM_CAP check? Or is such a kernel too old
anyway? Then catch it during configure and point the user to... well...
there is no kvm-kmod with kernel header updates for PowerPC. Hmm... ;)

Jan

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