slackbuilds_ponce/system/kvm-kmod
Robby Workman 4b3c0cbf2a system/kvm-kmod: Fix build with non-running kernel and ...
Remove the depmod.d config file, as it doesn't appear to be needed
any more.  I'm leaving the bit of code that created it (it's only
commented out for now) since I don't know for *sure* that it's not
needed any more.  What I do know is that IF it IS still needed, the
previous file wasn't working anyway since the modules were installed
to a new location by upstream, and we (both maintainer and I) missed
that fact when updating the build script.  Oops :)

Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
2012-04-14 23:44:39 -05:00
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doinst.sh
fixup_udev_rules.diff system/kvm-kmod: Updated for version 3.2. 2012-02-18 09:12:29 -02:00
kvm-kmod.info system/kvm-kmod: Updated for version 3.3. 2012-04-09 11:53:25 -05:00
kvm-kmod.SlackBuild system/kvm-kmod: Fix build with non-running kernel and ... 2012-04-14 23:44:39 -05:00
README system/kvm-kmod: Updated for version 3.2. 2012-02-18 09:12:29 -02:00
slack-desc system/kvm-kmod: Updated for version 2.6.35.6. 2010-10-20 10:50:23 -05:00

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution
for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions
(Intel VT or AMD-V).  KVM is divided into the KVM-KMOD package
(kernel modules) and the QEMU-KVM package (slightly modified QEMU)
which are both available as separate Slackbuilds.

KVM-KMOD consists of a kernel module, 'kvm.ko', that provides the
core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module,
'kvm-intel.ko' or 'kvm-amd.ko'.  Slackware provides these modules
in the 'a/kernel-modules*' packages.  In most cases, the provided 
versions are sufficient to run QEMU-KVM.  KVM-KMOD is only needed 
if you want to change the KVM modules to a different version.

KVM-KMOD updates the modules without overwriting the ones provided
by Slackware.  If you uninstall KVM-KMOD, you will need to run 
'depmod -a' to regenerate the modules.dep and map files to regain 
access to the Slackware provided versions.

By default, this script uses the "users" group for determining who
has permission to use /dev/kvm, but if you prefer something else,
set KVMGROUP when running the script, e.g.:
  KVMGROUP=wheel sh kvm-kmod.SlackBuild