[OT] kvm kernel module in fc6?

[Avi Kivity]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 00:11 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>   
>> probably more correct to post to fedora extra, but as kernel is also
>> affected, I try to post also here. Sorry for your extra-time.
>> I have an updated fc6 (2.6.18-1.2869.fc6) and I installed the
>> kvm-9-1.i386.rpm package found under extras-development.
>> But this gives me only the user space modified version of qemu
>> (qemu-kvm is the only file included).
>>     
>
> It's intentionally in the devel tree only as that's the only place where
> the kernel has the support.  When the FC6 kernel goes to 2.6.20 (which
> it eventually will), then adding the package for FE6 will make sense.
>   

It's fairly trivial to backport kvm (it runs as a module on kernels as 
old as 2.6.16) if it is desired to give FC6 users a technology preview.

It would certainly help kvm by expanding the userbase.


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