Re: Installing kernel headers in kvm-kmod

Arnd Bergmann
2009-12-10T14:50:35Z

On Thursday 10 December 2009, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 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? :-)
> >
> I've pushed a half-tested approach into kvm-kmod's next branch. Feel
> free to test/fix/enhance it.

This would work, but installing to /usr/include/linux/kvm.h will confuse
distro package managers a lot, because that location belongs to the glibc
or libc-linux-headers or some other package already.

If you want to install the headers from kvm-kmod, I would recommend
doing it in a different path, e.g. /usr/include/kvm-kmod/{linux,asm}.
qemu can then add -I/usr/include/kvm-kmod to it's default include
path and get the kvm-kmod version if that's installed or the distro
version otherwise.

It may also be useful to do the equivalent of 'make headers_install'
from the kernel, to remove all "#ifdef __KERNEL__" sections and
sparse annotations from the header files, but it should also work
without that.

Arnd