From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: Allow remapping guest TTY into host PTS Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:09:04 +0300 Message-ID: <1316106544.3743.25.camel@lappy> References: <1316076790-4431-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <1316089726.3743.15.camel@lappy> <20110915165239.GB5114@dancer.ca.sandia.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pekka Enberg , kvm@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, asias.hejun@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com To: David Evensky Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:53265 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756472Ab1IORJh (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:09:37 -0400 Received: by fxe4 with SMTP id 4so827973fxe.19 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:09:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110915165239.GB5114@dancer.ca.sandia.gov> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 09:52 -0700, David Evensky wrote: > Sasha, > > So far so good! I applied your patch to an older version of kvm-tool > that I had hacked on and it works for a simple test. So I think that I > can do some kernel hacking with kvm tool! Very cool. > Awesome! > I'm tested with the older version of kvm-tool because I am seeing a > bug with an old kernel (2.6.28.10) and the latest version of kvm-tool. > It is an old kernel, and now that I can debug more easily; hopefully I > won't require it. > > In case this is worthwhile the error I'm seeing is below. While I do > have 9p compiled into my kernel, I'm not actually using it. I haven't > tried without the 9p compiled in. > [snip] > For this kernel, CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO is defined, but the kernel is old, so > there may be issues. > > \dae > I've noticed that 9p/virtio-9p is a bit unstable in older versions, for example: you can't use 9p rootfs with kernels older than 2.6.38 (which isn't that old really). -- Sasha.