[kvm-devel] KVM on Debian

[Baruch E. <ba...@ev...>]

Hi,

I got KVM to work on Debian just now with a few problems:

To install all needed dependencies:
apt-get install libuuid-dev gcc-3.4 libsdl1.2-dev zlib1g-dev

./configure didn't work for me as it didn't find the gcc-3.4 and uname
-i failed to work:

sed -i -e 's/$(uname -i)/i386/' configure
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/kvm --qemu-cc=gcc-3.4

kvm.ko wasn't installed into /lib/modules/`uname -r`

other than that things look good, this is on kernel 2.6.17-2-686
on an Intel Core Duo. So far I only tried to run the Debian LiveCD and
it run very nicely.

What are the plans with regard to merging the needed qemu changes
upstream? It would be nice to be able to package the kernel module and
know that everything else will just work.

And for a temporary package for Debian, is there anything else that is
needed besides the qemu executable and the kernel module? I noticed
there is a library and some include files, anything uses them?

Cheers,
Baruch