Re: Installing kernel headers in kvm-kmod

Avi Kivity
2009-12-10T13:12:41Z

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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