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From: Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot compile kvm
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:04:53
Message-Id: 53e35fd50912240419i71a8b1efme65dc06d4cb2906c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot compile kvm by Alan McKinnon
1 On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Thursday 24 December 2009 11:00:52 Marcus Wanner wrote:
3 >> On 12/23/2009 8:14 PM, Xi Shen wrote:
4 >> > hi,
5 >> >
6 >> > i cannot access my computer now, so i can only tell you what i remember.
7 >> >
8 >> > i am using gentoo amd64, and the portage is updated. the kernel have
9 >> > kvm modules compiled. when i was trying to emerge kvm-kmod, it is said
10 >> > to have been masked, so i unmasked it. but while compiling, kvm-kmod
11 >> > failed with an error message like:
12 >> >
13 >> > cannot file arch/x86/kvm/trace.h file
14 >>
15 >> Masked packages are usually masked for a reason. I would check on google
16 >> and then the gentoo bugzilla and see if anyone else has had the same
17 >> problem, and how they fixed it.
18 >>
19 >> Marcus
20 >>
21 >
22 > /var/portage/profiles/package.mask:
23 >
24 > # Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> (22 Nov 2009)
25 > # masking until this package can follow the actual
26 > # kvm-kmod upstream package
27 > app-emulation/kvm-kmod
28 >
29 >
30 > That seems to imply the reason for the hard mask is version incompatibility
31 >
32 >
33 > --
34 > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
35 >
36 >
37
38 oops```so i need to wait sometime before it is updated.
39
40
41 --
42 Best Regards,
43 David Shen
44
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