Re: VMX ideas

Alexander Graf
2008-11-03T07:33:03Z

Am 03.11.2008 um 00:36 schrieb "Glauber Costa" <glommer@gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>
>>> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, on Fedora, if you install the 'kvm' userspace package, we
>>>> drop a
>>>> script into /etc/sysconfig/modules/kvm.modules that cause kvm-
>>>> intel.ko
>>>> or kvm-amd.ko to be loaded at boot time.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Does the postinstall also load the modules? If not, users who don't
>>> reboot are in for an unpleasant surprise.
>>>
>>
>> I checked and it doesn't.
> Funny. Rawhide version does exactly that.

So when a Fedora user installs the kvm userspace, he can't run vmware/
parallels/vbox and the like without fiddling?

That doesn't exactly sound like a good user experience to me. I'll try
to post an RFC for 2. later today.

Alex

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