Re: a (bad) kvm story from a plain user

Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-08-14T19:30:33Z

> How can I know if the qemu I ran took advantage of the kvm module ?
By the time you reported, probably did not.

> I even tried to compile the kvm bundle myself (i took the one that
> is recommended for kernel 2.6.20, as the wiki says),
> but alas, the ./configure shouted I don't have gcc 3.x
> (which is indeed true as an up-to-date system today have gcc 4.x).
It should be included in any up-to-date system as an alternative.
Probably gcc-compat, or something like this.

> last question - the ./configure script has the option reflecting whether the
> kernel is patched or not. if i download the cutting edge rc3 kernel,
> should i add the --patched flag or not ?
>

Yes ;-)

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