Re: kqemu on Sid
On Tuesday 19 June 2007, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > I installed qemu on Sid.
> >
> > But Sid's kqemu is backlevelled: it depends on a non-existing 2.6.18
> > kernel.
>
> You can built the correct module for your kernel at any time using the
> following commands:
>
> # apt-get install module-assistant kqemu-source kqemu-common
> # m-a update
> # m-a a-i kqemu
>
> Dunno if kqemu’s postinst already runs "modprobe kqemu". You might want to
> do that if it doesn’t.
>
> > Does anybody run qemu with kqemu installed successfully?
>
> Yep, runs fine and fast here.
The debian installation of kqemu places a /etc/modprobe.d/kqmeu file with a
"major=0". This apparently will not be overridden by specifying this in
modprobe! So edit this file to "major=250". Qemu might not be able to
open /dev/kqemu (which has a "major" of 250) with that.
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