Cam and others, I have been trying to enable Shared memory in KVM but I am not clear on the correct procedures and requirements, I am new to KVM, kernel building, git so am on very step learning curve. I have an application that requires shared memory between host and guest. I have been using Vmware workstation 6.0.5, but all later versions do not support shared memory, and WS 6 is no longer available. I think I have managed to build and install the guest's kvm_ivshmem module, from http://www.gitorious.org/nahanni/ I used cd kernem_modules;make;sudo make install;sudo modprobe kvm_ivshmem. Every thing seems to have worked. On the host side I am very confused as to what is required. I have created git repository using git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git I have been able to patch, build and install, but the result does NOT run. I have checked out the qemu-kvm-0.11.0 and built and installed but then I get a version miss-match. (this was unpatched as the patch does not work on this version). The host is Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit, with ubuntu's KVM installed. Can I simply somehow build and install ivshmem module, or do I need to rebuild the kernel? eg get kvm.git and build and install new kernel. Is there another KVM binary that I can use, instead of Ubuntu's? Is the ivshmem patch likely to be accepted anytime soon? Thanks Nev -- 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
