Hi Avishay, Are you running qemu as a normal user? In that case, could you please check whether normal user has rw access to the kernel source?
Also could you please attach the output of strace scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897193 Title: virtfs: kernel compile fails Status in QEMU: New Bug description: I am trying to compile a kernel under virtfs, and am getting an error. The error does not occur when compiling outside of the virtfs mount. Both guest and host are running the 3.0.4 kernel. QEMU is latest from git: bc75c9e50d308b2ec6623a40179c5cdc84b63dae QEMU command line: /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -boot c -m 1024 -machine type=pc,accel=kvm -drive file=/root/hdd1.img,if=virtio -drive file=/root/test1.img,if=virtio -drive file=/root/test2.img,if=virtio -virtfs local,path=/mnt/virtfs,security_model=none,mount_tag=virtfs -net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=DE:AD:BE:EF:AA:BB -net tap,ifname=qtap0,script=no virtfs line in /etc/fstab: virtfs /mnt/virtfs 9p defaults,noauto,trans=virtio 0 0 Steps to reproduce and output: [root@guest linux-3.0.4]# make mrproper CLEAN scripts/basic CLEAN scripts/kconfig CLEAN include/config include/generated CLEAN .config .config.old [root@guest linux-3.0.4]# make defconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf *** Default configuration is based on 'x86_64_defconfig' # # configuration written to .config # [root@guest linux-3.0.4]# make scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig *** Error during update of the configuration. make[2]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 1 make[1]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 2 make: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf', needed by `include/config/kernel.release'. Stop. Please let me know if you need any other information. Thanks! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/897193/+subscriptions
