booting kernel with kvm

harisha ja harisha.ja at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 05:31:12 EDT 2014


Hi All,

I am interested in Linux kernel development. I have subscribed for newbies
mail for a while and this is my first mail to the group. My intention and
interest is to work on network( if possible mm) side of kernel. First of
all thanks for all the kernel developers and the guys here for contribution
to Linux community.

Here is my doubt.

1) I downloaded the linux source code and created the config using make
defconfig and created image using make ( I did not do make install as I
want test it with kvm)

I have windows 7 system and I have installed ubuntu using vmware. I have
installed KVM on ubuntu and I am trying to boot the kernal image with KVM.
But I am not sure what is the problem. I am stuck in this screen. Is
something I am missing here?

The approach using kvm to put some logs and to see module initialization is
wrong?.

The command I am using
kvm  -kernel ./arch/x86/boot/bzImage  -append root=/root/


I see the below message and then the qemu prompt does not boot and stops by
displaying below traceback.

Could not access KVM kernel module: No such file or directory
failed to initialize KVM: No such file or directory




QEMU
5.1654731 Stack: 5.1654731 c18ea844 claea9a0 00000000 fffffffa d?861efc
00008001 d?8611 a35f91 5.1654731 cl8ddba8 d?861efc d7861efc fffffffa
00000000 d7b6e000 cl8dd6 ff3dc0 5.1654731 d7b6e000 6e6b6e75 2d6e??61 636f
6c62 2c30286b c1002930 d78611 13c248 5.1654731
Call Trace:
5.1654731 l<c1a35f91>1 mount_block_root+Ox158/0x1de
5.1654731 l<c1002930>1 ? do_general_protection+0x40/0x170
5.1654731 l<c113c248>1 ? SyS_mknod+0x28/0x30
5.1654731 l<cla3610a>1 mount_root+Oxf3/Oxfb
5.1654731 l<c1a36235>1 prepare_namespace+0x123/0x167
5.1654731 l<c112cf30>l ? SyS_access+0x20/0x30
5.1654731 l<cla35cf7>1 kernel_init_freeable+Ox1b5/0x1c2
5.1654731 l<c1a35545>1 ? do_early_param+0x74/0x74
5.1654731 l<c174caab>1 kernel_init+Oxb/Oxe0
5.1654731 l<c175a041>1 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x21/0x30
5.1654731 l<c174caa0>1 ? rest_init+0x60/0x60
5.1654731 Code: 00 00 00 00 31 ff 83 3d 8c a9 ae cl 00 74 05 e8 Oe dO 9 c?
44 24 04 a0 a9 ae cl c7 04 24 44 a8 Be cl e8 b6 05 00 00 fb 3116 <35>1 15
83 75 f0 01 8b 45 f0 ff 15 80 a9 ae cl 01 c6 8d be 5.1654731 EIP:
l<c174f2e9>1 panic+0x165/0x197 SS:ESP 0068:d7861eb8 5.1654731 --I end trace
a4Obaf277b417d8d 1--






Thanks
Harish
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