Hi, Avi. On Monday, 14 December 2009 20:38:08 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >> Then, I imagine that only it would be necessary to compile the >> userspace. > It is not necessary to rebuild userspace, unless you want to use new > features. Good. Then if we did not need new features and we only want to apply security fixes, installing kvm-kmod would be sufficient? Backing, for example, to the DSA-1907-1 [1] with KVM-88 and Linux 2.6.30.4 from kernel.org, under this situation what version of kvm-kmod would have to build? I remember that when I did the compilation at that time I had to apply the patch mentioned in this [2] thread. This no longer would be necessary? The dependencies for kvm-kmod are the same that for kvm-nn? I guess that during the building of the new modules, the virtual machines would have to be down. Is this correct? >> The steps that I habitually followed are the mentioned ones in the >> section 'Unpacking and configuring kvm components' of this [1] >> document, but I suppose that to only compile userspace it will be >> necessary to follow a different procedure. Is there some document >> that you can indicate to me where are mentioned these steps? > I suggest downloading qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2. All you need is a > ./configure; make; make install. I forgot to mention 'configure' in the other mail, although also I had used it. Thanks to indicate the procedure to me. With the packages mentioned in the dependencies for kvm-nn [3], it seems that it was sufficient, although perhaps now it is not necessary to install all. Now I'm having the problem that told you when I doing 'make'. >> Very interesting the replies in this thread. It drew attention >> powerfully to me which Michael Tokarev said that KVM never was and >> never will be for production. Personally I'm using KVM-88 with 2.6.30 >> and it works wonderfully well. > I doubt he meant kvm is not for production use. It can be, or perhaps he didn't have a good day, as he said :-D > Instead, the development snapshots are not meant for production use > (as they do not receive updates, for example). Instead, use the > modules and userspace provided by your distribution, or the kvm-kmod > and qemu-kvm packages. Thanks for the explanation. Thanks for your reply. Regards, Daniel [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00229.html [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/36981/focus=36985 [3] http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/HOWTO1 -- Fingerprint: BFB3 08D6 B4D1 31B2 72B9 29CE 6696 BF1B 14E6 1D37 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Lenny - Linux user #188.598
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