Re: Q: status of kvm/ subdir in qemu-kvm tarball?

2011-02-27 Thread Avi Kivity
On 02/23/2011 04:57 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: The only situation where using kernel headers not provided by qemu itself is when you want to build qemu for older kernel and omit some features and runtime tests. But this is hardly a good goal to support. I don't think the goal of the

Re: Q: status of kvm/ subdir in qemu-kvm tarball?

2011-02-27 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2011-02-27 17:28, Avi Kivity wrote: On 02/23/2011 04:57 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: The only situation where using kernel headers not provided by qemu itself is when you want to build qemu for older kernel and omit some features and runtime tests. But this is hardly a good goal to

Q: status of kvm/ subdir in qemu-kvm tarball?

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
What's the current status of files in kvm/ subdirectory in the qemu-kvm distribution (0.14 or git) ? As far as I can see, all that is old and unused stuff, which only confuses users. It is not used during build the Makefiles are obsolete and refers to non-existed files/directories, some

Re: Q: status of kvm/ subdir in qemu-kvm tarball?

2011-02-23 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2011-02-23 12:04, Michael Tokarev wrote: What's the current status of files in kvm/ subdirectory in the qemu-kvm distribution (0.14 or git) ? As far as I can see, all that is old and unused stuff, which only confuses users. It is not used during build the Makefiles are obsolete and

Re: Q: status of kvm/ subdir in qemu-kvm tarball?

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
23.02.2011 14:31, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2011-02-23 12:04, Michael Tokarev wrote: What's the current status of files in kvm/ subdirectory in the qemu-kvm distribution (0.14 or git) ? [] I think there are a few bits still in use: - kvm/kvm_stat this is a tiny useful tool, yes, and we package

Re: Q: status of kvm/ subdir in qemu-kvm tarball?

2011-02-23 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2011-02-23 12:42, Michael Tokarev wrote: 23.02.2011 14:31, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2011-02-23 12:04, Michael Tokarev wrote: What's the current status of files in kvm/ subdirectory in the qemu-kvm distribution (0.14 or git) ? [] I think there are a few bits still in use: - kvm/kvm_stat

Re: Q: status of kvm/ subdir in qemu-kvm tarball?

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
23.02.2011 15:58, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2011-02-23 12:42, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] - kvm/include (latest kernel headers) *) This directory is always used (in configure) unless -kerneldir is specified - who uses that nowadays? I dunno. It may not be relevant to distros, provided they

Re: Q: status of kvm/ subdir in qemu-kvm tarball?

2011-02-23 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2011-02-23 14:15, Michael Tokarev wrote: 23.02.2011 15:58, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2011-02-23 12:42, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] - kvm/include (latest kernel headers) *) This directory is always used (in configure) unless -kerneldir is specified - who uses that nowadays? I dunno. It may

Re: Q: status of kvm/ subdir in qemu-kvm tarball?

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
23.02.2011 16:45, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2011-02-23 14:15, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] It only matters if you want to build qemu-kvm for OLDER kernel without support of some features which are used by the userspace you're building. Provided 3 things: It also matters if you are building for a

Re: Q: status of kvm/ subdir in qemu-kvm tarball?

2011-02-23 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2011-02-23 15:30, Michael Tokarev wrote: 23.02.2011 16:45, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2011-02-23 14:15, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] It only matters if you want to build qemu-kvm for OLDER kernel without support of some features which are used by the userspace you're building. Provided 3 things: