Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:57:41 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote:

> >> WARN: pretend
> >> You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This is not supported
> >> by upstream unless you use their recommended toolchain (which you are
> >> not).  If you are intending to use this build with QEMU, realize you
> >> will not receive any support if you have compiled your own SeaBIOS.
> >> Virtual machines subtly fail based on changes in SeaBIOS.
> >    I don't see any USE flags about this.

> The "binary" flag is an IUSE default but you're preventing the flag
> from being enabled somehow.

That's the sort of fun you get with USE="-*" :P

> > 2) I download a Gentoo install ISO, and create a 7 gig raw file
> > sda.raw, and start qemu-kvm
> >
> > $ qemu-kvm -hda sda.raw -cdrom installx86.iso -boot d
> > Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
> > failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied

Is the problem with reading the module file or loading it? If you
modprobe the kvm module as root first, can you then run it as a user? You
may want to add the module to /etc/conf.d/modules.


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Neil Bothwick

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