From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECFCB1381F3 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 16:59:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9EABE0888; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 16:58:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C759FE07EC for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 16:58:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0106720924 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:58:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:58:10 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.co.uk; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mesmtp; bh=62ztc191TXlwQ1RqWlsCJGkbGQI=; b=bI90VzgZbvvNt0k+ghNlCOWIK9Jz KgOqDo14eecKXO97iH2quB4KPKZktTltCS+QJDkeKl2KH0FXyijHbzzqKa5/zZ4Z rVNU/NUkHJO9fNtHm3Yl99Suvb7ZGOID72eJdjazyfYSDEX6XK8DRPnTWSCzovDS lWgHdplcnHrcK8w= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=62ztc191TXlwQ1RqWlsCJG kbGQI=; b=FOmOqsb4P8+To8VI1PAqssnqLtLimgS7W4f83gu9/WzfbSY3FtIobn 99k1l24ZcNgIjE9APkHLvjooq+cmDdbx14JlL1KADZXce6j0Kvp5Esa/m43Oq0N6 g/f57IcyyIlx6M6ebNPESHtpXkj1rzWkCSUJyL1xYlt98sluJ3W1s= X-Sasl-enc: kWEsAFGK5x0xbcQBuACuXfmi28rkEjLRhlAKspvJfjpM 1380733090 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (unknown [94.170.82.148]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 99E6DC00E80 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:58:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <524C5099.3010800@fastmail.co.uk> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:58:01 +0100 From: Kerin Millar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KVM on AMD ... why doesn't it just work? References: <524C113A.6070003@xunil.at> <524C25A2.5070000@fastmail.co.uk> <524C4A50.7050205@xunil.at> <524C4E19.1030802@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: <524C4E19.1030802@xunil.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6c391b4f-9a04-4dc9-852a-5f1e93dcc057 X-Archives-Hash: 6120d4fb9bfa5b0b3b9370731492ce2a On 02/10/2013 17:47, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 02.10.2013 18:31, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 02.10.2013 15:54, schrieb Kerin Millar: >> >>> Run "modinfo kvm kvm-amd" and check for discrepancies between the >>> details of the two, especially regarding the vermagic field. >> >> [...] >> >>> I would suggest "make mrproper" to clean the source tree. Ensure that >>> the .config has been backed up because it will be deleted as a result. >> >> I had no module "kvm" because one was built as module and one into the >> kernel. I now did mrproper and recompile both kvm and kvm_amd into the >> kernel. The next reboot will show ... > > Rather simple issue: > > I have a kernel in boot with the suffix -safe ... and this one got > listed first in grub.conf. > > kerninst found that one and always set that one as default so my various > recompilings never changed the kernel itself but only the modules ... > which lead to strange mismatches ... You could customize EXTRAVERSION for your safe kernel to prevent this from happening. It can be modified in the Makefile or - if I recall correctly - by creating a file named "localversion-safe" in the root of the source tree and enabling CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. That way, its module directory would be distinct. > > Now I am on a clean and mrproper 3.10.7-r1 ... WITH /dev/kvm ! > > Thanks! > > And the performance of the first VM looks good ... even with the vmdk > ... conversion will follow. > > Stefan > >