Re: What should I do for kvm development first?

[Izik Eidus <izike-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 23:02 -0800, Neo Jia wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2007 7:47 AM, Izik Eidus <izike-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> > Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:46:03PM -0800, Neo Jia wrote:
> > >
> > >> I synced with kvm.git and kvm-userspace.git. Do I have to rebuild and
> > >> install the entire kernel every time?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > Luckily, not. By default, when you ./configure in kvm-userspace.git, make
> > > is told to build the kvm kernel module against the currently-running
> > > kernel.
> > >
> > > The source code of the kernel module comes from the kvm.git tree. What I
> > > suggest is to
> > >         make -C kernel LINUX=path/to/kvm.git sync
> > > (when in kvm-userspace.git) in order to copy that source code to
> > > kvm-userspace.git.
> > >
> > >
> > >> I really appreciate if you can share me your development/debugging
> > >> methods for KVM.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I hope you get more clues from other more experienced folks here. Good
> > > luck,
> > >
> > > Dan.
> > >
> > development methods:
> > 1)reading the kvm code / reading
> > 2)intel/amd system programming specs
> > 3)ask questions in the list
> >
> > debugging is very very hard in this area, most of time is just printing
> > the values all over kvm
> > and biesecting.
> >
> > sometimes you might want to write a test program, but...
> 
> Izik and Dan,
> 
> Thank you for your response! Now, I can build modules from kvm.git
> instead of build the whole kernel.
> 
> Any comments for the TODO item or bug  I need to pick up first?
> 
check out:
http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/TODO
and:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=180599&atid=893831


> 
> 


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