Hello Andre, On 13.02.2015 11:39, Andre Przywara wrote: > Hi, > > as I found it increasingly inconvenient to use kvmtool[1] as part of a > Linux repository, I decided to give it a go and make it a stand-alone > project. So I filtered all the respective commits, adjusted the paths in > there (while keeping authorship and commit date, of course) and then > added the missing bits to let it compile without a kernel tree nearby. > The result is now available on: > > git://linux-arm.org/kvmtool.git > http://linux-arm.org/kvmtool.git It builds fine on x86_64, but when I tried to crosscompile from x86_64 to AArch64, I get in trouble because of libfdt: I have the aarch64 libs (static and shared), but how do I instruct the build system to get it from the right place? Thanks, Claudio > > You can simply check it out, type make and use "./lkvm run" for a quick > test. So far I briefly tested x86-64, arm and arm64, the later two were > also cross-compiled. For sure there are rough edges in there (for > instance copying a few non-uapi header files into), but I deem it worthy > enough to get some public comments. > For me that also fixed some nasty warnings about libfdt, which now are > gone due it using your system library version of it. > I also managed to get rid of the libc-i386-dev dependency when compiling > for x86-64, but that still needs to be cleaned up and thus is not in the > current HEAD. > I haven't got around to compile-test the other supported architectures, > but supporting them should be as easy as copying over the uapi kvm.h > header file (see the respective ARM commit). Contributions (and tests!) > are welcome. > > Please give it a go and tell me what you think. I don't want to fork the > project, so I am happy if someone "official" picks it up. > > Cheers, > Andre. > > [1] https://github.com/penberg/linux-kvm/tree/master/tools/kvm > _______________________________________________ > kvmarm mailing list > kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm > -- Claudio Fontana Server Virtualization Architect Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH Riesstraße 25 - 80992 München office: +49 89 158834 4135 mobile: +49 15253060158 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
