Re: [libvirt] [PATCH sandbox 1/3] Support lzma and gzip compressed kernel modules

2015-06-16 Thread Cedric Bosdonnat
On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 12:25 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Modern distros like Fedora have started to compress their kernel module files, so we can't simply read the file contents and load the module. We have to first do a decompression step, as the kernel won't do that itself. While Fedora

[libvirt] [PATCH sandbox 1/3] Support lzma and gzip compressed kernel modules

2015-06-16 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
Modern distros like Fedora have started to compress their kernel module files, so we can't simply read the file contents and load the module. We have to first do a decompression step, as the kernel won't do that itself. While Fedora uses lzma, upstream kernels are also capable of using gzip.