[OT] kvm kernel module in fc6?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:11:26AM +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).

The kvm package from extras-development is a new addition and will require
the coresponding kernel from rawhide, to get the neccessary kernel mods.

> I'm able to run for example the iso of the fc6 live cd without problem.
> When running it I'm obviously receiving the message that /dev/kvm is
> not found and that kvm will so be turned off.
> In case I want to run Windows inside it, can I find the pre-compiled
> version of kvm for fc6 anywhere or should I download the source and
> self compile?

Fedora 7 will be the first release to officially support KVM. So if you're
trying this on FC6, then you will have to build KVM kernel& userspace bits
yourself.

> I have a quad core system based on a p5b-vm mb so that I would like to
> test vt technology.

In FC-6, Xen  HVM guests will happily use VT extensions and will be much
faster than KVM currently is, not to mention more stable (well for some
guest OS at least).

Regards,
Dan.
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