Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 01:49:59PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> For now, the “solution” is to create it like this: >> sudo mknod /dev/kvm c 10 232 >> Can you confirm? > > Yes, that works. Together with /dev/shm (how is this affected by the change, > by the way?), there are more and more things to change on a debian system. > Hopefully your patch will go through. Could /dev/kvm not simply be dropped, > instead of enabled according to the machine on which the daemon runs? Then > we would be closer to a deterministic build also.
We can’t simply drop it, because we want to be able to use KVM in the build environment. That’s a minor issue, though, because (1) the only things that rely on KVM are the VM build support, and (2) when the stand-alone GNU exists, it will have /dev/kvm. Ludo’.
