From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 27636@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27636: /dev/kvm went missing on i686, Linux 4.12
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 22:09:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shhtfqwv.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tjlzf7l.fsf@netris.org>
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
> When you looked for "kvm" or "KVM", did your kernel message buffer still
> include the initial boot messages? The kernel message buffer is of a
> fixed size, so eventually the early messages are lost.
I ran it immediately after booting 4.12.
> I'm fairly sure that I've seen /dev/kvm on this machine in the past. It
> might be that in earlier versions of Linux, /dev/kvm was created even
> when it couldn't be used, and now it's created only conditionally, but
> that's only a guess.
I have seen it in the past as well. It is only with 4.12 that /dev/kvm
is gone. I have installed 4.9 on this machine and /dev/kvm exists.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-18 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-10 5:40 bug#27636: /dev/kvm went missing on i686, Linux 4.12 Ricardo Wurmus
2017-07-10 15:52 ` Leo Famulari
2017-07-10 17:29 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-07-17 20:06 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-07-18 20:02 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-07-18 20:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-06-23 4:13 ` Chris Marusich
2020-03-22 20:34 ` Leo Famulari
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