Re: kqemu on Sid

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Tuesday 19 June 2007, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 June 2007, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org 
wrote:
> > > > I installed qemu on Sid.
>
> [snip]
>
> > 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.
>
> i happened to have the same sid-kqemu problem. david's hint did work
> for me.
>
> thank you very much,

..and remember to fix this each time you reinstall. If you are installing for 
a couple of different kernels, this is easily overlooked :-)