From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-73 release Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:58:51 +0200 Message-ID: <48AE9BEB.1070607@lfarkas.org> References: <48AC327A.60809@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:7712 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753053AbYHVK65 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:58:57 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so187815nfc.21 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:58:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48AC327A.60809@qumranet.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Avi Kivity wrote: > The big change is of course full swapping support, finally delivering > the full range of Linux memory management operations to kvm. You will > need a 2.6.27 host to use this functionality, however. > > Other noteworthy changes: speedups of both virtio-net and qcow2 with > cache=off. Two important works-in-progress: device assignment (not > usable yet, as dma support is still missing) and the real-mode emulation > framework. what is the current recommended way to build kernel module for kvm? until now it was a simple make KDIR=... in the linux dir, but it's no longer working. first of all now is required to run configure for kernel module too, second the above make now get into an infinite recursive loop. anyway it's be useful a few lines of INSTALL file for both userspace and kernel module config, build and install procedure. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"