On Friday 13 April 2007, Carsten Emde wrote: > Eildert, > > > I am trying to get kvm going on my bleeding edge kubuntu system (feisty). > > [..] > > but when starting kvm or qemu I get > > [..] > > kvm kernel version too old > > Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support > > You preferably configure --prefix=/usr. > The command "make install" will then copy the modules to the > /lib/modules/<version>/extra directory which gets searched first. > One of "modprobe kvm_intel" and "modprobe kvm_amd" will then load the > newly produced modules. > > Then start kvm, but fasten your seat belts first. > > --cbe
thanks for the response even this suggestion does not prevent the kernel modules to be loaded first. Anyway, I used insmod from the extra directory and it seems to load the right models. Now I also know when HW virtualzation is used: in the qemu frame it says QEMU/KVM, good. It does start up much faster but then: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/kvm$ /usr/bin/qemu . -hda kubuntu.img -cdrom kubuntu.iso -boot d -m 512 exception 13 (0) rax 000000000000001f rbx 000000000006dffe rcx 0000000000031c21 rdx 0000000000031c02 rsi 000000000006dffe rdi 000000000004f661 rsp 0000000000007bd6 rbp 000000000006dfe8 r8 0000000000000000 r9 0000000000000000 r10 0000000000000000 r11 0000000000000000 r12 0000000000000000 r13 0000000000000000 r14 0000000000000000 r15 0000000000000000 rip 0000000000001451 rflags 00033002 cs 4004 (00040040/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) ds 4004 (00040040/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) es 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) ss 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) fs 0080 (00000800/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) gs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) tr 0000 (20850000/00002088 p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type b l 0 g 0 avl 0) ldt 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type 2 l 0 g 0 avl 0) gdt 40620/f idt 0/3ff cr0 60000010 cr2 0 cr3 0 cr4 0 cr8 0 efer 0 Aborted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/kvm$ any idea? -- Eildert Groeneveld =================================================== Institute for Animal Breeding Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany Tel : (+49)(0)5034 871155 Fax : (+49)(0)5034 871239 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vce.tzv.fal.de/index.pl http://www.tzv.fal.de/~eg/ http://apiis.tzv.fal.de/index.pl =================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
