From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: walt Subject: Re: Preventing conflicts between kernel header versions? Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:24:54 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:44452 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752226AbYKKAZJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:25:09 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Kzh43-0000uQ-4V for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:25:03 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-200-19.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.200.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:25:03 +0000 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-200-19.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:25:03 +0000 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: walt wrote: > Hi kvm team, > > I'm tracking Linus.git, kvm.git, and VirtualBox.svn, among other > open source projects. I'm finding a conflict between kvm.git and > VirtualBox.svn over the version of my linux kernel headers... Well, I just discovered the --with-patched-kernel flag, which fixes my compile problem with kvm, so I guess there is no header conflict after all. I took so long to try that flag because I didn't know what "don't use external module" means -- and I'm still not sure what 'external' means. External to what? Thanks!