Re: [Qemu-devel] /dev/kqemu could not be opened

[Michael McConnell]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:

> Hi,
> I installed kqemu 1.3.0-pre9 and qemu 0.8.2. /dev/kqemu exist and is
> widely "usable" (chmod 666 and 777 tested)
> 
>       $ ls -l /dev/kqemu 
>       crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 250, 0 2006-12-02 23:34 /dev/kqemu
> 
> But when launching qemu:
> 
>       $ qemu -m 512  debian.img 
>       Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - 
>       QEMU acceleration layer not activated
> 
> /dev/kqemu is not openable.... What could be the problem?

Is the kqemu module loaded?

If not, try 'modprobe kqemu' then restart QEMU.

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