Re: Debian 5.0 host, qemu-kvm 0.12.4, unable to use -smp > 1

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

11.08.2010 21:43, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Am Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:41:55 +0400 schrieb Michael Tokarev:

>> Please, pretty pretty please already, forget about kvm-NN releases.
>> They're dead long time ago.  bpo provides 0.12.4 now, and used to have
>> 0.11 when it was current.  Note the subject says the same thing...
>
> why not ad a "Conflicts: kvm-source" to qemu-kvm ?

Because it's not qemu-kvm who conflicts with old kvm-source (kernel
module).  It is kvm-source that breaks _kernel_, not qemu-kvm.

Because one may install kvm-source, upgrade to new kernel (kvm-source
will break it by replacing kvm modules with older, non-functional ones),
and later install qemu-kvm.  The kernel is already broken, even if
kvm-source is removed during qemu-kvm install.

So it should be the kernel to conflict with kvm-source.  Note that
even lenny's kernel modules are more recent than kvm-72.

In any way, it's Debian-specific issue, not very interesting to most
readers of kvm@vger.

Thanks!

/mjt