Re: Installing kernel headers in kvm-kmod

Anthony Liguori
2009-12-10T21:44:37Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/10/2009 04:50 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> 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}.
>>
>
> Maybe even /usr/local/include/kvm-kmod-$version/...., and a symlink
> /usr/local/include/kvm-kmod.

A pkg-config file would be nice. Then we need no symlink. Makes qemu
interaction saner.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori