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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Zang Hongyong <zanghongyong@huawei.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	"james.chenjiabo@huawei.com" <james.chenjiabo@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: Is kvm-guest-drivers-linux.git still live? Is virtio-serial included?
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 16:03:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBCE008.1040907@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBCD22B.4070306@huawei.com>

On 05/23/2012 03:03 PM, Zang Hongyong wrote:
> Hi,
> To support linux guests with old kernel version, vitio driver backport
> is needed. But I cannot find kvm-guest-drivers-linux.git now.

It is dead.

> From linux distributions' virtio backport versions, such as
> virtio-0.1-18.el3.src.rpm for RHEl3 hat and
> novell-virtio-drivers-2.6.27-sle10sp3.iso for SLES 10 sp3, virtio-serial
> driver is not included.

Most distributions do have drivers.  For the ones that don't, I suggest
contacting the vendor and requesting a backport.


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Zang Hongyong <zanghongyong@huawei.com>
Cc: "james.chenjiabo@huawei.com" <james.chenjiabo@huawei.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Is kvm-guest-drivers-linux.git still live? Is virtio-serial included?
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 16:03:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBCE008.1040907@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBCD22B.4070306@huawei.com>

On 05/23/2012 03:03 PM, Zang Hongyong wrote:
> Hi,
> To support linux guests with old kernel version, vitio driver backport
> is needed. But I cannot find kvm-guest-drivers-linux.git now.

It is dead.

> From linux distributions' virtio backport versions, such as
> virtio-0.1-18.el3.src.rpm for RHEl3 hat and
> novell-virtio-drivers-2.6.27-sle10sp3.iso for SLES 10 sp3, virtio-serial
> driver is not included.

Most distributions do have drivers.  For the ones that don't, I suggest
contacting the vendor and requesting a backport.


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-23 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-23 12:03 Is kvm-guest-drivers-linux.git still live? Is virtio-serial included? Zang Hongyong
2012-05-23 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] " Zang Hongyong
2012-05-23 13:03 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-05-23 13:03   ` Avi Kivity

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