From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
To: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:51:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4593E7EB.7070801@argo.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6a2187b0612280742x1b613849ye23aca38c71a5871@mail.gmail.com>
Jeff Chua wrote:
> On 12/28/06, Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il> wrote:
>
>> udev is the best solution here. It works with read-only root as it
>> mounts tmpfs on /dev.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion and I'll look into it. As for now, my system
> works well without udev, and I just wanted to test kvm without the
> "dynamic" /dev/kvm feature if possible.
>
> Would it be possible to create /dev/kvm once and let it stay there
> permanently? How about a switch for non-udev system?
[cc'ing udev guru]
Greg, /dev/kvm is a MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR device. Is there any way of
using it without udev? Should I allocate a static number?
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-28 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-28 13:08 open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory Jeff Chua
2006-12-28 13:29 ` Dor Laor
2006-12-28 14:38 ` Jeff Chua
2006-12-28 14:51 ` Avi Kivity
2006-12-28 15:42 ` Jeff Chua
2006-12-28 15:51 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2006-12-29 5:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-12-29 8:48 ` Jeff Chua
2006-12-30 0:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-29 4:37 ` Jeff Chua
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