From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] Add udev rule Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:34:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4ADC6AD9.8010500@siemens.com> References: <20091019105923.3988.42243.stgit@mchn012c.ww002.siemens.net> <20091019105924.3988.4209.stgit@mchn012c.ww002.siemens.net> <68676e00910190628l792842e8o7e1990a0e03ff4c0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Avi Kivity , Marcelo Tosatti , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: Luca Tettamanti Return-path: Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:21774 "EHLO thoth.sbs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751936AbZJSNeb (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:34:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <68676e00910190628l792842e8o7e1990a0e03ff4c0@mail.gmail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Luca Tettamanti wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Ported from OpenSUSE: Provide an udev rule that not only sets the group >> of /dev/kvm but also triggers automatic loading of the kernel modules >> during boot. > > Loading kvm used to block other virtualization software from using VMX > (I don't recall if it was also true for amd); is this still the case? While I can't imagine that anyone wants to use anything else than KVM: No, this was resolved recently, and kvm-kmod is now referring to a version that includes these patches. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux