Bugs item #2151771, was opened at 2008-10-07 17:17 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jessorensen You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=2151771&group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: libkvm Group: None >Status: Closed >Resolution: Out of Date Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Duilio J. Protti (dprotti) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: libkvm API documentation error - kvm_create() Initial Comment: Documentation for kvm_create() in libkvm/libkvm.h file states (taken from version 76): /*! * \brief Create new virtual machine * * This creates a new virtual machine, maps physical RAM to it, and creates a * virtual CPU for it.\n * \n ... */ However, the statement "and creates a virtual CPU for it" is false, at least since version 65 of KVM, were vcpu 0 creation was removed from kvm_create(): --- kvm-64/libkvm/libkvm.c 2008-03-26 09:49:35.000000000 -0300 +++ kvm-65/libkvm/libkvm.c 2008-04-04 18:22:20.000000000 -0300 @@ -388,9 +388,6 @@ if (r < 0) return r; kvm_create_irqchip(kvm); - r = kvm_create_vcpu(kvm, 0); - if (r < 0) - return r; return 0; } In versions newer than 64 vcpu 0 has to be explicitely created with kvm_create_vcpu(), otherwise kvm_run() will fail with a "Bad file descriptor" error. This error was found with the help of Pablo Passera. Thanks Pablo! Regards, Duilio Protti. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Jes Sorensen (jessorensen) Date: 2010-08-19 13:00 Message: Hi, libkvm is gone, so this is no longer applicable. Thanks for reporting it though and sorry that we didn't get back to you sooner. Cheers, Jes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=2151771&group_id=180599 -- 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
