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 wrote: > >> On 10/13/07, Dennis Kibbe 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@ldesk:~$ qemu-img create -f qcow gutsy.img 4G >> Formating 'gutsy.img', fmt=qcow, size=4194304 kB >> larry@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@ldesk:~$ lsmod | grep emu >> kqemu 124580 0 >> larry@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. -- Jon M. Hanson (N7ZVJ) Homepage: http://the-hansons-az.net Weblog: http://the-hansons-az.net/wordpress Jabber IM: jon@the-hansons-az.net