as a follow up in the thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg22580.html Aidan Marks highlighted that the code in kvm-kmod-88 is exactly the same as what is bundled in the kernel 2.6.31 however the kvm-kmod package does not compile properly. Jan also confirmed that this is the case As a workaround it should be safe to use: echo "app-emulation/kvm -modules" >> /etc/portage/package.use emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc41 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.31-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T8300_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:05:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Gentoo/" LANG="ru_RU.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en ru" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/data/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sectools /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://gentoo.o0o.nu/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde ldap libnotify logitech-mouse mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wifi win32codecs x264 x86 xcomposite xine xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0 hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ru" LIRC_DEVICES="sir" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
this is not the general case for >= 2.6.31, only = 2.6.31 with kvm-88. please update the summary i.e. if you have 2.6.31 and want to use kvm-88-r1, kvm-kmod-88-r1 is not required and you can use the in kernel modules. if they release kvm-devel-89 for example, it may have newer kvm-kmod code than what is bundled in the kernel.
(In reply to comment #1) > this is not the general case for >= 2.6.31, only = 2.6.31 with kvm-88. please > update the summary thanks again, updated. I would just feel better with kernel's kmod build-in module by default. Let's keep an eye on it.
Something else comes to mind. why are we calling the package "kvm-kmod" when we don't actually use the kvm-kmod tarball? we are pulling in the devel version, it is a bit confusing. shouldn't our kmod package be called kvm-kmod-devel?
If <2.6.31, +modules if >2.6.31, -modules
Why is this assigned to me? I added some USE flag descriptions and I became the maintainer...
@cardoe: You appear as the maintainer of both packages
fixed in qemu-kvm
fixed in app-emulation/qemu-kvm
