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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Installing kernel headers in kvm-kmod
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:12:46 +0200
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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.

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