From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: Doubt on KVM-88 vulnerabilities Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:25:02 +0100 Message-ID: <4AF993DE.5020702@siemens.com> References: <20091108184240.GA29279@defiant.freesoftware> <4AF93AB8.3040504@redhat.com> <4AF94A2A.2020302@shiftmail.org> <4AF95690.1050208@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4AF97689.1070503@shiftmail.org> <4AF97BEB.8020406@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4AF98138.6000100@shiftmail.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Tokarev , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Asdo Return-path: Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:21023 "EHLO thoth.sbs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755841AbZKJQY7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:24:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4AF98138.6000100@shiftmail.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Asdo wrote: > Great, thanks for your reply! > > All clear, except one thing, pls see ---> > > Michael Tokarev wrote: >>> >>> 2.6.31.5 >>> 2.6.30 >>> 2.6.30.1 >>> 2.6.30-rc8 >>> 2.6.30-rc6 >>> >>> I don't undestand why they are numbered like the kernel, that's >>> strange... More specifically, this is the question: If I have a >>> kernel version N, what kvm-kmod can I compile in it? If I can just >>> compile version N, then it's useless because that's identical to the >>> kvm.ko I already had. Or can I compile kvm-kmod 2.6.31.5 in my kernel >>> 2.6.24? That's a strange version numbering... why haven't you used >>> the same numbering as for qemu-kvm? >> And besides, the versioning of kvm-kmod's are not obvious to me: I see >> these ones at sourceforge: >> >> Because such numbering proved to be confusing, and you are confused by >> it too. The above numbers means just like, kvm-kmod from kernel 2.6.30.1 >> (say), but "ported" to a wider range of kernels. kvm-kmod is being >> developed as part of kernel. > Ok so you mean I can indeed take kvm-kmod 2.6.31.5 and compile it > against my older host kernel? > (except that the host kernel needs to be anyway >= 2.6.28 as you say below) > Did I understand correctly? > Please see http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/42256 Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux