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authorChristopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>2016-02-22 11:23:14 -0800
committerChristopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>2016-02-22 13:28:58 -0800
commit944d2b17b50b6e1890817d4724ed101bc2c4b0ef (patch)
tree543500c438d420451a6a7fc8bc6b7b4ff68d80be /gnu
parent8b16a5e1996bd9ec66915f84beaac6d34cb0f353 (diff)
vm: Only pass "-enable-kvm" to qemu if /dev/kvm is present.
Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/22633>. * gnu/build/vm.scm (load-in-linux-vm): Only pass "-enable-kvm" flag to qemu if "/dev/kvm" is present. * gnu/system/vm.scm (common-kvm-options): Same as above.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
-rw-r--r--gnu/build/vm.scm19
-rw-r--r--gnu/system/vm.scm10
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/build/vm.scm b/gnu/build/vm.scm
index a095f9de8a..48e701adbe 100644
--- a/gnu/build/vm.scm
+++ b/gnu/build/vm.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -97,7 +99,7 @@ the #:references-graphs parameter of 'derivation'."
(_ #f))
(unless (zero?
- (apply system* qemu "-enable-kvm" "-nographic" "-no-reboot"
+ (apply system* qemu "-nographic" "-no-reboot"
"-m" (number->string memory-size)
"-net" "nic,model=virtio"
"-virtfs"
@@ -111,10 +113,17 @@ the #:references-graphs parameter of 'derivation'."
"-initrd" initrd
"-append" (string-append "console=ttyS0 --load="
builder)
- (if make-disk-image?
- `("-drive" ,(string-append "file=" image-file
- ",if=virtio"))
- '())))
+ (append
+ (if make-disk-image?
+ `("-drive" ,(string-append "file=" image-file
+ ",if=virtio"))
+ '())
+ ;; Only enable kvm if we see /dev/kvm exists.
+ ;; This allows users without hardware virtualization to still
+ ;; use these commands.
+ (if (file-exists? "/dev/kvm")
+ '("-enable-kvm")
+ '()))))
(error "qemu failed" qemu))
(if make-disk-image?
diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm
index a7c03bda17..58a476a468 100644
--- a/gnu/system/vm.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -457,7 +459,13 @@ with '-virtfs' options for the host file systems listed in SHARED-FS."
"\" "))
#~(string-append
- " -enable-kvm -no-reboot -net nic,model=virtio \
+ ;; Only enable kvm if we see /dev/kvm exists.
+ ;; This allows users without hardware virtualization to still use these
+ ;; commands.
+ #$(if (file-exists? "/dev/kvm")
+ " -enable-kvm "
+ "")
+ " -no-reboot -net nic,model=virtio \
" #$@(map virtfs-option shared-fs) " \
-net user \
-serial stdio -vga std \