Re: current kvm userspace git doesn't compile on i386

[Uri Lublin <uril-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 01:37:11PM +0200, Uri Lublin wrote:
>   
>> Try to build the kernel modules too (remove '--with-patched-kernel' from 
>> ./configure arguments ):
>> ./configure --prefix=/opt/kvm --qemu-cc=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4 ; make -C 
>> kernel LINUX=<path-to-linux-git-tree> sync; make
>> You will have to rmmod current kvm modules and insmod the built modules 
>> under <KVMDIR>/kernel.
>>     
>
> This doesn't work with rsync complaining.  But I don't really want new
> kernel code anyway, and I would be very surprised if building a
> different kernel would fix a userspace link error given the obvious
> boundary between kernel and userspace code.
>   
I'm not suggesting to build the whole kernel, just the kvm-modules 
(instead of using the kvm-modules that came with linux).
It seems that your current kvm modules know nothing about vapic, while 
your kvm-userspace assumes they do.

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