Re: open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory

2006-12-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Avi Kivity wrote: Greg, /dev/kvm is a MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR device. Is there any way of using it without udev? Should I allocate a static number? Especially for something like /dev/kvm, I think it would make sense to allocate a static number for it. -hpa - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory

2006-12-29 Thread Jeff Chua
On 12/29/06, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 16:51, Avi Kivity wrote: > Greg, /dev/kvm is a MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR device. Is there any way of > using it without udev? Should I allocate a static number? You can write a small script that parses /proc/misc and cre

Re: open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory

2006-12-28 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 28 December 2006 16:51, Avi Kivity wrote: > Greg, /dev/kvm is a MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR device.  Is there any way of > using it without udev?  Should I allocate a static number? You can write a small script that parses /proc/misc and creates the device, like # /sbin/mknod /dev/kvm c 10 `gr

Re: open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory

2006-12-28 Thread Jeff Chua
On 12/28/06, Jeff Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure the kvm_intel & kvm modules are loaded? > Please check your dmesg. I checked and it's loaded ... Module Size Used by kvm_intel 18572 0 kvm 46276 1 kvm_intel Any chance of

Re: open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory

2006-12-28 Thread Avi Kivity
Jeff Chua wrote: On 12/28/06, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: udev is the best solution here. It works with read-only root as it mounts tmpfs on /dev. Thanks for the suggestion and I'll look into it. As for now, my system works well without udev, and I just wanted to test kvm without t

Re: open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory

2006-12-28 Thread Jeff Chua
On 12/28/06, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: udev is the best solution here. It works with read-only root as it mounts tmpfs on /dev. Thanks for the suggestion and I'll look into it. As for now, my system works well without udev, and I just wanted to test kvm without the "dynamic" /dev/

Re: open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory

2006-12-28 Thread Avi Kivity
Jeff Chua wrote: It's a dynamic misc device, you don't need to create it. But it'll be nice to be able to manually create the device as I normally mount "/" as read-only? udev is the best solution here. It works with read-only root as it mounts tmpfs on /dev. -- error compiling committ

Re: open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory

2006-12-28 Thread Jeff Chua
On 12/28/06, Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you sure the kvm_intel & kvm modules are loaded? Yes. Maybe you're bios does not support virtualization. Configured in the bios on Dell 745. Please check your dmesg. I'll double-check dmesg when I get to the office tomorrow. But I'm p

RE: open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory

2006-12-28 Thread Dor Laor
>On linux-26..20-rc2, "modprobe kvm-intel" loaded the module >successful, but running qemu returns a error ... > >/usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu -hda vdisk.img -cdrom cd.iso -boot d -m 128 >open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory >Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support Are you sure the kvm