Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 10 December 2009, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> QEMU 0.12.0-rc1 does not support KVM >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/494500 >>> >>> Boils down to the fact that 1) we don't include kernel headers in qemu >>> (whereas qemu-kvm does) and 2) kvm-kmod does not install those headers >>> on make install. >>> >>> I think we've discussed (2) as being the preferred solution. Does >>> everyone agree with that? Anyone care to volunteer to make the change? :-) >>> >> I've pushed a half-tested approach into kvm-kmod's next branch. Feel >> free to test/fix/enhance it. > > This would work, but installing to /usr/include/linux/kvm.h will confuse > distro package managers a lot, because that location belongs to the glibc > or libc-linux-headers or some other package already. > > If you want to install the headers from kvm-kmod, I would recommend > doing it in a different path, e.g. /usr/include/kvm-kmod/{linux,asm}. > qemu can then add -I/usr/include/kvm-kmod to it's default include > path and get the kvm-kmod version if that's installed or the distro > version otherwise. Good point. /usr/include/kvm-kmod would be ok for me unless someone wants them elsewhere. > > It may also be useful to do the equivalent of 'make headers_install' > from the kernel, to remove all "#ifdef __KERNEL__" sections and > sparse annotations from the header files, but it should also work > without that. Yes, I think it's better to let the sync source install those headers for us, then pick up those cleaned versions, carry them in kvm-kmod in addition to the existing ones and finally install them. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- 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
