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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Asdo <asdo@shiftmail.org>
Cc: KVM mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: KVM on old kernels pre-2.6.28
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:38:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4ABDF3.906@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4ABCC8.4060300@shiftmail.org>

On 02/03/2011 04:33 PM, Asdo wrote:
> On 01/27/2011 10:55 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >  ... Using kvm-kmod allows you to run a newer kvm on an older kernel ...
>
> ok thanks
>
> Regarding this: I can't find the kmod version requirements for every KVM
> version.

I don't think there is an exhaustive list.

> What happens if the kernel module version I'm running is too old for the
> KVM I'm trying to run? Will it fail at startup giving an error, or I
> won't be warned and then weird things will happen sometime during runtime?
> If it's the latter, can I at least be sure that always installing the
> latest kvm-kmod will not do harm to any KVM, even if the KVM is older?

There is no warranty.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


      reply	other threads:[~2011-02-03 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-26 16:51 KVM on old kernels pre-2.6.28 Asdo
2011-01-27  9:55 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-27 18:09   ` David Ahern
2011-01-30 13:03     ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-30 16:37       ` David Ahern
2011-01-30 17:03         ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-03 14:33   ` Asdo
2011-02-03 14:38     ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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