From: "Jeff Chua" <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
To: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Avi Kivity" <avi@argo.co.il>, "Dor Laor" <dor.laor@qumranet.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:48:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6a2187b0612290048o6001f992p4a4741cf622f0068@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612290650.28508.arnd@arndb.de>
On 12/29/06, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 28 December 2006 16:51, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > Greg, /dev/kvm is a MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR device. Is there any way of
> > using it without udev? Should I allocate a static number?
>
> You can write a small script that parses /proc/misc and creates the device,
> like
>
> # /sbin/mknod /dev/kvm c 10 `grep '\<kvm\>' /proc/misc | cut -f 1 -d\ `
>
> If you already have an init script, e.g. to set up tun/tap devices,
> it would make sense to put it in there.
>
> Arnd <><
>
That works. That's exacting what I'm looking for.
Thank you,
Jeff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-29 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-28 13:08 Jeff Chua
2006-12-28 13:29 ` Dor Laor
2006-12-28 14:38 ` Jeff Chua
2006-12-28 14:51 ` Avi Kivity
2006-12-28 15:42 ` Jeff Chua
2006-12-28 15:51 ` Avi Kivity
2006-12-29 5:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-12-29 8:48 ` Jeff Chua [this message]
2006-12-30 0:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-29 4:37 ` Jeff Chua
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