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