kqemu issue

[Jon M. Hanson]

Dazed_75 wrote:
> I have been trying to get kqemu working and Dennis gave me a pointer
> where to find some info.  But the problem I had looks kinda off so I
> am re-asking about it here>
>
> Just noticed something but I am not sure what to do about it.  See below
>
> On 10/15/07, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 10/13/07, Dennis Kibbe <dennisk at linuxquestions.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-qemu/
>>>
>>> Larry,
>>>
>>> Here's another good resource.
>>>
>>> Dennis
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Nice article.  I have kqemu in place but it still is not working for
>> some reason.
>>
>> larry at ldesk:~$ qemu-img create -f qcow gutsy.img 4G
>> Formating 'gutsy.img', fmt=qcow, size=4194304 kB
>> larry at ldesk:~$ qemu -hda gutsy.img -cdrom
>> ~/Desktop/ubuntu-7.10-rc-desktop-i386.iso  -boot d
>> Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated
>> larry at ldesk:~$ lsmod | grep emu
>> kqemu                 124580  0
>> larry at ldesk:~$ ll /dev/kq*
>> crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 61 2007-10-15 01:10 /dev/kqemu
>>
>>     
>
> See the 'c' attribute on the /dev/kqemu?  According to the chattr man
> page, that means it is a kernel compressed file and the Bugs and
> Limitations section of that same man page says it is not honored by
> the ext2 and ext3 filesystems (which this is on).  Any ideas?  I
> should probably re-ask this on the list.
>
>
>   
Just for clarification as this doesn't help solve your kqemu issue, the
"c" attribute on that file does not meant that it's compressed. That
means that it's a character device and it's a means of communicating
directly with a kernel driver.


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