Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964927AbWL2Ft5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:49:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754244AbWL2Ft5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:49:57 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:49246 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754074AbWL2Ft4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:49:56 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:50:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Jeff Chua , Dor Laor , lkml , Greg KH References: <4593E7EB.7070801@argo.co.il> In-Reply-To: <4593E7EB.7070801@argo.co.il> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612290650.28508.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:bf0b512fe2ff06b96d9695102898be39 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 704 Lines: 18 On Thursday 28 December 2006 16:51, Avi Kivity wrote: > Greg, /dev/kvm is a MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR device. ?Is there any way of > using it without udev? ?Should I allocate a static number? You can write a small script that parses /proc/misc and creates the device, like # /sbin/mknod /dev/kvm c 10 `grep '\' /proc/misc | cut -f 1 -d\ ` If you already have an init script, e.g. to set up tun/tap devices, it would make sense to put it in there. Arnd <>< - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/