Hi.
I have a quite particular issue which I try to solve via QEMU/KVM.
Background:
I have a Linux based appliance running a commercial firewall product. The
vendor bases the Linux version on RHEL5 2.6.18-92. The vendor then backports
features as needed for their product and userspace and mai
On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:49:42 +0100 (CET) Mikael wrote:
> The firewall itself utilizes modules which are non-open source. As such
> building your own kernel, even with the same version is not possible as the
> firewall product would cease operating.
You could try to build module for AES accele
- On Jan 26, 2017, at 11:08 AM, Nerijus Baliunas
neri...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:49:42 +0100 (CET) Mikael wrote:
>
>> The firewall itself utilizes modules which are non-open source. As such
>> building
>> your own kernel, even with the same version is not po
On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 12:02:16 +0100 (CET) Mikael wrote:
> > You could try to build module for AES acceleration with the same vermagic
> > (look at the output of modinfo some_module.ko) and try to insmod it
> > without changing the running kernel.
>
> Thanks for the tip. I have considered this. As
- On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:16 PM, Nerijus Baliunas
neri...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>
> I meant to take the stock kernel sources (or RH patched sources), change
> vermagic/ modversions in it to match the vendor kernel, build it, and try to
> insert the
> built module.
> I did it successful
- On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:16 PM, Nerijus Baliunas
neri...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>
> I meant to take the stock kernel sources (or RH patched sources), change
> vermagic/ modversions in it to match the vendor kernel, build it, and try to
> insert the
> built module.
> I did it successful
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:18:53AM +0100, Joe wrote:
> Anyway the issue was related to a misunderstanding of qemu man page:
>
> -vga type
>Select type of VGA card to emulate. Valid values for type are
>
>cirrus
>Cirrus Logic GD5446 Video card. All
