On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 2011-06-14 23:10, AP wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 2011-06-14 20:30, AP wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> On 06/13/2011 08:11 PM, AP wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>>> On 06/11/2011 03:02 AM, AP wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I am building kvm as an external module against 2.6.38-8 (Ubuntu 11.04 >>>>>>>> kernel). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Why? >>>>>> >>>>>> I did not want move to the new kernel from kvm.git. >>>>> >>>>> I generally find that it works well, though I only run it on servers. >>>>> >>>>>> I just wanted to >>>>>> upgrade to the latest kvm module for some development. Is there a way >>>>>> to use the kvm.git tree and only build and load kvm? >>>>> >>>>> kvm-kmod. >>>> >>>> That is what I am using and running in to the permanent module issue. >>> >>> What version of kvm-kmod? What are your steps to reproduce? >>> >>> I've just checked the kvm-kmod-2.6.39 release in an Ubuntu 11.4 VM, and >>> it's loading&unloading fine. >> >> I am following the instruction that I found here under "building an >> external module with older kernels": >> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Code >> >> I ran: >> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm-kmod.git >> cd kvm-kmod >> git submodule update --init >> ./configure --kerneldir=/lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic/build >> make sync >> make >> >> I am at: >> commit bed5dfdeb11cf3a749396e4c353018bae5aff66f >> Author: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Wed Jun 1 09:08:49 2011 +0200 >> >> Update source link >> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> The kvm source comes from the kernel tree that is part of kvm-kmod i.e >> in the linux-2.6 directory. >> >> Thanks, >> AP > > Still unreproducible here - and unexplainable. Can you debug your setup > further, maybe following the suspect you had regarding CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD? I am not able to figure out how kvm.mod.c and kvm-intel.mod.c get created at compile time. Could you please give me a pointer to where that happens? Thanks, AP -- 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
