From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Felix Leimbach <felix.leimbach@gmx.net>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to use current KVM with non-modular kernel
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:35:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BE5A79.9020606@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48BE41E0.4030103@gmx.net>
Felix Leimbach wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> due to security concerns I have kvm hosts which have non-modular
> kernels, i.e. CONFIG_MODULES is not set.
> I'd like to use the latest KVM kernel code with those, but cannot not
> always upgrade to the latest kernel.org kernel.
>
> Is it possible to update kernel sources to include the latest and
> greatest kvm?
> For example to have 2.6.25.16 kernel with the kvm-74 module *compiled
> in*.
You could copy the kernel files in the kvm-74 distribution into a new
directory in the Linux source tree, add '#include
"external-module-compat.h" to the top of all of them, and hack a Kbuild
for them. It would take some effort, but should work.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-03 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-03 7:50 How to use current KVM with non-modular kernel Felix Leimbach
2008-09-03 9:35 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-09-03 17:39 ` Charles Duffy
2008-09-03 21:27 ` Thomas Lockney
2008-09-03 21:41 ` Javier Guerra
2008-09-03 22:27 ` Thomas Lockney
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