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I recently put QEMU on my computer running Mandriva 2006, which was probably one of the easiest installs I've ever done (I used the pre-compiled binaries). Once I installed the program, it was quite simple for me to make a blank image file, and then once I was able to get my hands on a bootable copy of XP, installing XP into the image went well. However, when I tried to get the Accelerator module for QEMU, thats when I started to run into problems. After unpacking the source, I ran ./configure in the terminal as root, and here is the resulting output:
Quote:
[crashsystems@localhost kqemu-1.3.0pre9]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost kqemu-1.3.0pre9]# ./configure
Could not find kernel includes in /lib/modules or /usr/src/linux - cannot build the kqemu module
Source path /home/crashsystems/Temp/qemu/kqemu-1.3.0pre9
C compiler gcc
Host C compiler gcc
make make
host CPU i386
./configure: line 344: test: =: unary operator expected
FYI my kernel is 2.6.12-12. I read in the documentation that some older kernels can have problems with the module, but I also read in the same place that if you have a 2.6 kernel, that all the necessary kernel modules should be fine. I'm hoping that this won't mean I have to re-compile my kernel. If anyone has some advice, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for you help.
You should only need the kernel-headers for your current kernel version to allow the qemu accelerator module to be compiled.
Ok, but where could I get the kernel-headers for my 2.6.12-12 kernel, or if they are on my computer and I just don't know about it, how would I point the ./configure script to them?
After spending an insane amount of time working on this, I was finaly able to find a copy of my kernel source with the kernel-headers needed to make the configure script work. So I hopped onto the termenal, su to root, then went into the kqemu dir and ran the configure script, then make and make install, and all that worked smoothly. However, when I ran qemu to open my winxp image, this is what happend.
[root@localhost qemu]# qemu winxp.img
Version mismatch between kqemu module and qemu (00010100 00010300) - disabling kqemu use
Thanks for your help in getting me this far. If you have any ideas how to fix this, that would be great.
i'm kind of a newbie and i didn't find the kernel-headers for my suse 10.1. i'd like to run qemu at the faster rate it should, so could anyone please give me some hints about where i could find those headers?
Last edited by sindbad1900; 10-20-2006 at 03:21 PM..
I don't have that distro, so I'm not sure where you would find them. However, the first place I would check is your install cd. If you don't find it there, you can post a question about it in the suse distro sub-forum, and you could also check the suse website.
i thought to myself: every header used for the compilation of the kernel is in ... the kernel source. there's even a package called like that on the dvd.
now i have the same problem as you. i'm looking for a newer qemu now, it should do the trick
btw u should get a newer qemu (mine is newer than yours anyway)
Last edited by sindbad1900; 10-21-2006 at 04:19 AM..
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