On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 02:15:06PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> Just defining the msrs instead of using kvm_para.h should be fine, the >>> numbers will not change ... >> That's not the problem. If one removes kvm_para.h, a lot of other things >> will not build. For example, the capabilities list. >> And it has been like this for almost a year now! >> >> Without that header, your system should have never successfully built a >> qemu-kvm instance. This is what happens here, if I try to remove it: > > qemu != qemu-kvm. > > qemu-kvm ships with a copy of the kvm kernel header files. > upstream qemu doesn't. ouch.
so this is the source of the confusion. My bad!