Re: could not open /dev/kvm

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Benjamin Budts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running debian, installed kvm-18 from source, it installed fine...
>
> I have an intel s5000pal motherboard with dual core xeon 64bit, 
> virtualization enabled in my bios.
>
> question 1 : is it normal i dont have this file : qemu-system-x86_64 , i 
> only have the qemu file in my /bin
>
> kvm and kvm_intel load fine with modprobe without errors or info in dmesg.
>
> toranaga:/usr/src/kvm-18# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> kvm_intel              19852  0
> kvm                    55128  1 kvm_intel
>
> I did the following :
>
> ./qemu-img create -f qcow2 /virtual/test/vtest.img 5G
> works out fine...
>
> ./qemu . -hda /virtual/test/vtest.img -cdrom /virtual/win_corp.iso -boot 
> d -m 512 -no-acpi
>
> gives the following error : could not open /dev/kvm ...
>
> in /proc/misc I found kvm as well :
>
>   62 kvm
>
> but I dont have the /dev/kvm  ... udev is installed though
>
> can someone push me in the right direction please ?  :)
>
>   

Is udevd alive?  What does 'pgrep udevd' show?

Does udevtrigger help?

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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