From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Installing kernel headers in kvm-kmod
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:12:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B20F3CE.2070904@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B20F27D.3000006@codemonkey.ws>
On 12/10/2009 03:07 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> QEMU 0.12.0-rc1 does not support KVM
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/494500
>
> Boils down to the fact that 1) we don't include kernel headers in qemu
> (whereas qemu-kvm does) and 2) kvm-kmod does not install those headers
> on make install.
>
> I think we've discussed (2) as being the preferred solution. Does
> everyone agree with that? Anyone care to volunteer to make the
> change? :-)
>
While I definitely agree with (2), for the bug you cite Ubuntu should
backport KVM_CAP_DESTROY_MEMORY_REGION_WORKS to their kernel (and
headers). Distributions shouldn't require kvm-kmod.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-10 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-10 13:07 Installing kernel headers in kvm-kmod Anthony Liguori
2009-12-10 13:12 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-12-10 13:35 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-12-10 14:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-12-10 15:01 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-10 15:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-12-10 16:42 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-12-10 16:44 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-10 17:14 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-12-10 20:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-12-10 20:36 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-10 21:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-10 15:01 ` Jan Kiszka
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