[SOLVED] Error during KVM installation

2handband · 11-20-2010, 04:50 PM

I want to try out KVM but am having a problem building it. Using the packages at slackbuilds.org and my slackware -current machine, it's eding off like this:

Code:

  WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.35.7/Module.symvers
           is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

  LD      /tmp/SBo/kvm-88/kvm/kernel/x86/built-in.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/SBo/kvm-88/kvm/kernel/x86/svm.o
cc1: fatal error: include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[4]: *** [/tmp/SBo/kvm-88/kvm/kernel/x86/svm.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [/tmp/SBo/kvm-88/kvm/kernel/x86] Error 2
make[2]: *** [_module_/tmp/SBo/kvm-88/kvm/kernel] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [kvm-kmod] Error 2

Does anybody know what the problem is here?

Chuck56 · 11-20-2010, 05:03 PM

The preferred way is to install the qemu-kvm package and not the kvm package. Slackware already provides the kvm modules so no need to replace them with the much older versions in the kvm package.

2handband · 11-20-2010, 05:42 PM

Thanks, I've got qemu-kvm building now. I notice that there don't seem to be any recent tutorials online for installing and configuring kvm on a Slackware box; if I get it figured out and am successful I'll write one for my website. Will update...

2handband · 11-20-2010, 06:13 PM

Okay, it's installed, the kernel modules are loaded... now I gotta figure out how to use this blasted thing. I'm doing some Google searching, but pointers are welcome.