thanks, i had seen some bootmessage about kvm being active and thought that i still have seen it after disabling all kvm config options - but apparently it was my fault and i mixed things up. indeed, KVM is OFF, even with HAVE_KVM=y. so, sorry for the noise. at least, it appears that this config option is confusing other people , too - see http://communities.vmware.com/message/1498691 regards roland >devzero@xxxxxx wrote: >> Hello, >> >> does anybody know why it seems that it`s not possible to build a kernel with "CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=n" ? >> >> It always switches back to "y" with every kernel build and i have no clue, why. > >It's an internal config symbol which is not visible in the menu >system and is always set up unconditionally based on the platform. >Just like "CONFIG_HAVE_MMU". > >You want another symbols, like CONFIG_KVM. > >/mjt ___________________________________________________________ WEB.DE DSL: Internet, Telefon und Entertainment für nur 19,99 EUR/mtl.! http://produkte.web.de/go/02/ -- 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