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* Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions
  @ 2013-07-24 13:16 99%   ` Neil Bothwick
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From: Neil Bothwick @ 2013-07-24 13:16 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:57:41 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote:

> >> WARN: pretend
> >> You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This is not supported
> >> by upstream unless you use their recommended toolchain (which you are
> >> not).  If you are intending to use this build with QEMU, realize you
> >> will not receive any support if you have compiled your own SeaBIOS.
> >> Virtual machines subtly fail based on changes in SeaBIOS.  
> >    I don't see any USE flags about this. 

> The "binary" flag is an IUSE default but you're preventing the flag
> from being enabled somehow.

That's the sort of fun you get with USE="-*" :P

> > 2) I download a Gentoo install ISO, and create a 7 gig raw file
> > sda.raw, and start qemu-kvm
> >
> > $ qemu-kvm -hda sda.raw -cdrom installx86.iso -boot d
> > Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
> > failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied

Is the problem with reading the module file or loading it? If you
modprobe the kvm module as root first, can you then run it as a user? You
may want to add the module to /etc/conf.d/modules.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

To most people solutions mean finding the answers.  But to chemists
solutions are things that are still all mixed up.

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