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From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 22633@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22633: Provide a kvm-less qemu / guix system vm
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:56:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87si0k8th9.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twl2xo6c.fsf@gnu.org>

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! :)

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-22 18:57 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 [this message]
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
2016-02-23 16:13                 ` Ludovic Courtès

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