Re: kvm on Ubuntu 8.04 running windows xp sp3: corrupts file system on shutdown?

[Jon Watte <jwatte@gmail.com>]

Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> On 7/2/2009 6:50 PM, Jon Watte wrote:
>> I'm attempting to set up a Windows XP virtual machine using KVM
>> running on 8.04 LTS x64 or a Core 2 Duo (6550). I have updated all
>> installed packages to the latest available as of a week ago. This is
>> KVM version 0.9.1 (kvm-62) on a kernel version 2.6.24-22-server.
>>    
> I warmly suggest updating to a later, much newer, KVM version. 
> Specifically qcow2 format had corruption bugs similar to what 
> described below.
> Y.


Thanks for the suggestion!

Unfortunately, I'm using a "long term support" version of the OS to 
avoid having to screw with the machine all the time. It serves a real 
purpose with real uptime requirements :-)

That being said, I tried uninstalling the provided kvm package, and 
downloading and building kvm-87 from source (the kvm-87.tar.gz tarball 
on Sourceforge). Unfortunately, after running configure, and make, it 
errors out on the following sub-make:

root@svn:/usr/local/src/kvm-87# make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-server/build M=`pwd` \
                LINUXINCLUDE="-I`pwd`/include -Iinclude \
                 -Iarch/x86/include -I`pwd`/include-compat \
                -include include/linux/autoconf.h \
                -include `pwd`/x86/external-module-compat.h " \
                "$@"
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-server/build: No such file or 
directory.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [kvm-kmod] Error 2
root@svn:/usr/local/src/kvm-87#

There is no /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-server/build on my machine. Creating 
it doesn't help; it just complains that the sub-make has no target or 
file specified.

I looked in the build documentation on linux-kvm.org, but it does not 
mention anything like this, or any particular requirements. It just says 
"configure, then make," which is what I'm doing. I'm pasting the 
print-out from configure below, if anyone has the opportunity to take a 
look at it I'd appreciate it.

Sincerely,

jw



root@svn:/usr/local/src/kvm-87# ./configure

Error: libpci check failed
Disable KVM Device Assignment capability.

Install prefix    /usr/local
BIOS directory    /usr/local/share/qemu
binary directory  /usr/local/bin
Manual directory  /usr/local/share/man
ELF interp prefix /usr/gnemul/qemu-%M
Source path       /usr/local/src/kvm-87
C compiler        gcc
Host C compiler   gcc
ARCH_CFLAGS       -m64
make              make
install           install
host CPU          x86_64
host big endian   no
target list       x86_64-softmmu
tcg debug enabled no
gprof enabled     no
sparse enabled    no
strip binaries    yes
profiler          no
static build      no
-Werror enabled   no
SDL support       no
curses support    no
curl support      no
mingw32 support   no
Audio drivers     oss
Extra audio cards ac97 es1370 sb16
Mixer emulation   no
VNC TLS support   no
VNC SASL support  no
kqemu support     no
xen support       no
CPU emulation     yes
brlapi support    no
Documentation     no
NPTL support      yes
vde support       no
AIO support       yes
IO thread         no
Install blobs     yes
-e KVM support       yes
KVM trace support no
fdt support       no
preadv support    no
root@svn:/usr/local/src/kvm-87#