From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 22633-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22633: Provide a kvm-less qemu / guix system vm
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:30:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh6c8mc2.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn78moz3.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:
>
>> Christopher Allan Webber writes:
>>
>>> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>>>
>>>> Libkmod honors ‘modprobe.blacklist’ (in ‘kcmdline_parse_result’ in
>>>> libkmod-config.c) and eudev passes KMOD_PROBE_APPLY_BLACKLIST
>>>> unconditionally in udev-builtin-kmod.c (meaning it honors it too.)
>>>>
>>>> However, there’s a hyphen-vs-underscore issue, I think. Namely, the
>>>> file is called ‘kvm-intel.ko’, but the normalized module name is
>>>> ‘kvm_intel’, and this is what libkmod expects (commit 5c7dd5a changes
>>>> our code to normalize module names similarly.)
>>>>
>>>> Could you try with “modprobe.blacklist=kvm_intel”?
>>>
>>> I tried it, and it works! This does mean that /dev/kvm doesn't exist,
>>> so I should be able to write a patch to Guix that disables kvm for qemu
>>> when /dev/kvm is absent. Great! :)
>>
>> This is slightly based off of Leo's preliminary patch, so I included him
>> in the copyright headers. I've tested and it works (in terms of
>> disabling kvm if no /dev/kvm is present) here.
>
> Cool! Can you just double-check whether -enable-kvm has any effect when
> /dev/kvm is missing? If it has no effect when /dev/kvm is missing, then
> we don’t even need a patch.
I checked yes; qemu fails.
>> Let me know if I need to fix something or if I should push...
>>
>> From 852e0049213a0a80cacdcad4aba13ab242c3fbd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
>> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:23:14 -0800
>> Subject: [PATCH] vm: Only pass "-enable-kvm" to qemu if /dev/kvm is present.
>>
>> * gnu/build/vm.scm (load-in-linux-vm): Only pass "-enable-kvm" flag to qemu
>> if "/dev/kvm" is present.
>> * gnu/system/vm.scm (common-kvm-options): Same as above.
>
> [...]
>
>> + ;; Only enable kvm if we see /dev/kvm exists.
>> + ;; This allows uers without hardware virtualization to still use these
> ^^
> Typo.
>
> [...]
>
>> + ;; Only enable kvm if we see /dev/kvm exists.
>> + ;; This allows uers without hardware virtualization to still use these
>
> Ditto.
Okay, fixed those.
> Otherwise the patch LGTM. Make sure to mention:
>
> Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/22633>.
>
> in the commit log.
Mentioned, committed, pushed!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-22 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-11 17:26 bug#22633: Provide a kvm-less qemu / guix system vm Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-11 22:50 ` Jookia
2016-02-12 0:49 ` Leo Famulari
2016-02-12 18:04 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-13 0:47 ` Leo Famulari
2016-02-12 9:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-12 17:47 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-13 19:10 ` Alex Kost
2016-02-21 12:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-23 8:08 ` Alex Kost
2016-02-21 12:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-22 18:56 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-22 19:35 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-22 19:43 ` Jookia
2016-02-22 21:27 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-22 21:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-22 21:30 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-02-23 16:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
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