Mac-On-Linux / KVM

Mac-On-Linux / KVM

[Martin Kukac]

Hello,

I'm new here, so I hope my question is not offtopic. I found out that 
M-o-L now works with KVM-PR, so I wanted to try it myself. I have 
PowerMac G5 (dual 970 CPU), Debian Wheezy and kernel 3.14.24 with 
kvm-pr. When I load the module and try to start M-o-L 0.9.73 build from 
SVN all I have is error message:

kvm_enable_cap failed
KVM init failed

Googling brought me to nothing, the only advice I found is about 
permissions, but I'm running M-o-L as root.

Can anyone help me, please?

Thanks,
Martin

Re: Mac-On-Linux / KVM

[chzigotzky]

Hello Martin,

Do you load the kernel module "PR" KVM with "modprobe kvm-pr"? By the way,
MoL/"PR" KVM needs the kernel 3.17 or higher.

Rgds,

Christian 

On 22.11.2014, you wrote:
> Hello,

> I'm new here, so I hope my question is not offtopic. I found out that 
> M-o-L now works with KVM-PR, so I wanted to try it myself. I have 
> PowerMac G5 (dual 970 CPU), Debian Wheezy and kernel 3.14.24 with 
> kvm-pr. When I load the module and try to start M-o-L 0.9.73 build from 
> SVN all I have is error message:

> kvm_enable_cap failed
> KVM init failed

> Googling brought me to nothing, the only advice I found is about 
> permissions, but I'm running M-o-L as root.

> Can anyone help me, please?

> Thanks,
> Martin

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Re: Mac-On-Linux / KVM

[Martin Kukac]

Thanks for reply. Yes, module kvm-pr is loaded by modprobe, so that should
not be the problem. 
However if kernel version is the problem, I will build more recent. It's a
bit surprising though, when the module is present in that kernel version.

Martin

"chzigotzky@xenosoft.de" <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de> wrote:
> Hello Martin,
> 
> Do you load the kernel module "PR" KVM with "modprobe kvm-pr"? By the way,
> MoL/"PR" KVM needs the kernel 3.17 or higher.
> 
> Rgds,
> 
> Christian 
> 
> On 22.11.2014, you wrote:
>> Hello,
> 
>> I'm new here, so I hope my question is not offtopic. I found out that 
>> M-o-L now works with KVM-PR, so I wanted to try it myself. I have 
>> PowerMac G5 (dual 970 CPU), Debian Wheezy and kernel 3.14.24 with 
>> kvm-pr. When I load the module and try to start M-o-L 0.9.73 build from 
>> SVN all I have is error message:
> 
>> kvm_enable_cap failed
>> KVM init failed
> 
>> Googling brought me to nothing, the only advice I found is about 
>> permissions, but I'm running M-o-L as root.
> 
>> Can anyone help me, please?
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Martin
> 
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Re: Mac-On-Linux / KVM

[Alexander Graf]

On 23.11.14 10:03, Martin Kukac wrote:
> Thanks for reply. Yes, module kvm-pr is loaded by modprobe, so that should
> not be the problem. 

Interesting. With MOL, 3.14 should already work IIRC. You only need 3.17
and above if you want to run Mac OS X in QEMU with KVM.

> However if kernel version is the problem, I will build more recent. It's a
> bit surprising though, when the module is present in that kernel version.

You say you're running on a G5 - is your mac-on-linux binary compiled
for ppc32 or ppc64? Mac-on-Linux is incredibly not 64bit safe, so it
won't work as 64bit binary.


Alex

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