[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU

[Avi Kivity]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Thinking again about it, this is not really necessary.
> >
> > In general a distro provides kernel headers matched to the running 
> > kernel.  For example F10 provides 
> > kernel-headers-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 to go along with 
> > kernel-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64.  So a user running a distro 
> > kernel (the majority, given that most people don't inflict pain upon 
> > themselves unnecessarily) will have exactly the features exported by 
> > the kernel.
>
> kernel-headers is not usually installed by default.  



It is:


$ rpm -q --whatrequires kernel-headers
glibc-headers-2.9-3.x86_64


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