And yes that is correct it has the e6500 core using PowerPC.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:24 AM Wayne Li <waynli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I run "lsmod | grep kvm" nothing shows up but if I just do a "find .
> -name "kvm"" I get the following:
>
> ./usr/src/kernel/Documentation/virtual/kvm
> ./usr/src/kernel/arch/arm/kvm
> ./usr/src/kernel/arch/arm64/kvm
> ./usr/src/kernel/arch/mips/kvm
> ./usr/src/kernel/arch/powerpc/kvm
> ./usr/src/kernel/arch/s390/kvm
> ./usr/src/kernel/arch/tile/kvm
> ./usr/src/kernel/arch/x86/kvm
> ./usr/src/kernel/drivers/s390/kvm
> ./usr/src/kernel/include/config/kvm
> ./usr/src/kernel/include/config/have/kvm
> ./usr/src/kernel/include/kvm
> ./usr/src/kernel/virt/kvm
> ./dev/kvm
> ./sys/devices/virtual/misc/kvm
> ./sys/class/misc/kvm
> ./sys/kernel/debug/kvm
> ./sys/module/kvm
>
> I guess this shows my OS does have KVM on it? I added the two flags you
> mentioned when running QEMU (the -cpu and the -machine flags) but the -cpu
> flag doesn't seem like it's doing anything as even when I put a clearly
> wrong argument after the flag no error related to the cpu is thrown. Also
> it says ppce500 is not a machine type and that the supported machines are:
>
> bamboo bamboo
> boeing-machine Boeing Machine
> none empty machine
> ref405ep ref405ep
> taihu taihu
> virtex-ml507 Xilinx Virtex ML507 reference design
>
> The one being used right now is boeing-machine which is clearly specific
> to the project I am working on. I'm not exactly sure what boeing-machine
> refers to but I'll ask the person who wrote the code that specified that
> machine,
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 2:04 AM Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 21/10/2019 23.06, Wayne Li wrote:
>> > Dear Qemu list members,
>> >
>> > I'm attempting to enable KVM in a Qemu-based project that is running on
>> > a T4240RDB board. After compiling my code with the -enable-kvm option I
>> > ran the qemu executable with the -enable-kvm option. The application
>> > exited with the following error message: "kvm error: missing PVR setting
>> > capability." What are some possibilities causing this error?
>>
>> That's an e6500 bas PPC board, isn't it? ... I guess nobody has been
>> running KVM on such a system in a while...
>>
>> What do you get when running "lsmod | grep kvm" ? How did you run QEMU?
>> I think you have to make sure to run with the right CPU model ("-cpu
>> e6500") and machine (likely "-M ppce500" ?).
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
