From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: KVM for Linux 2.6.16? Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:02:58 +0300 Message-ID: <4A597C92.9040609@redhat.com> References: <0199E0D51A61344794750DC57738F58E67D4F30729@GVW1118EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> <1247161758.28820.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Fischer, Anna" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: Cristi Magherusan Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:48784 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751140AbZGLGC4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:02:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1247161758.28820.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/09/2009 08:49 PM, Cristi Magherusan wrote: > >> Is KVM not supposed to work on 2.6.16? >> > Hi Anna, > > I'm afraid that I have some bad news for you. Usually KVM versions are > tailored to kernel versions contemporary with them. Version 87 is > supposed to need 2.6.26 kernels and newer, IIRC. So for your 2.6.16 you > should try some of the incipient KVM versions, and if you are lucky > enough, they might work. > That's incorrect. We try to keep compatibility from 2.6.16 forward. Due to the huge test matrix we often have problems, but once we get automatic testing going this will improve. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.