From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luiz Capitulino Subject: Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: fix segfault when running kvm without /dev/kvm, falling back to non-accelerated mode Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:05:03 -0300 Message-ID: <20090903170503.39e35ab7@doriath> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Dustin Kirkland Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60850 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756227AbZICUFK (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:05:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:31:33 -0500 Dustin Kirkland wrote: > qemu-kvm: fix segfault when running kvm without /dev/kvm, falling back > to non-accelerated mode > > We're seeing segfaults on systems without access to /dev/kvm. It > looks like the global kvm_allowed is being set just a little too late > in vl.c. This patch moves the kvm initialization a bit higher in the > vl.c main, just after options processing, and solves the segfaults. > We're carrying this patch in Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha. Please apply > upstream, or advise if and why this might not be the optimal solution. > > Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland Fixes the problem to me: Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino