[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello All, > > I'm having some trouble with kvm-60. I'm trying to run it from a flash > (ram disk). When I load kvm-intel.ko, it doesn't create the device file > /dev/kvm. Can anyone give me a clue to why this might be so. Is the ram > disk the problem?
a kernel module does not create any device files. On a modern distribution, udev is usually responsible for creating device nodes based on which actual devices are present on the system and which drivers are loaded. Sometimes a distribution does not include udev (or it's optional) - in this case static /dev layout is used, that is, a fixed set of device nodes are created during system install. In this case you have to create missing nodes manually. For /dev/kvm, look at /sys/devices/virtual/misc/kvm/dev - that's a file with major and minor numbers for the device node. Create it like this: mknod /dev/kvm c major minor (where major and minor values are taken from the above mentioned file). But kvm support should be here in the first place to start with. If /sys/devices/virtual/misc/kvm is not here, verify that the module is actually loaded and found necessary hardware support. Note that kvm may be disabled in BIOS for example. Also try never BIOS if it seems to be here but still doesn't work. /mjt ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
