David and Katherine Goodwin

if you try to load the kqemu module and get FATAL errors, this may indicate that you've compiled the kqemu module with a different GCC to the one used to compile your kernel

on dapper, my kernel (currently 2.6.15-26-k7) is built with gcc4. qemu wanted to be built with gcc-3.4, so when i compiled the kqemu module after that it took me a while to realise that the kqemu mod needs to be compiled with the same gcc as my kernel - but it doesn't matter that it's compiled with a different gcc from qemu!

so: kernel + kqemu GCC have to match ... and for me, kqemu + qemu GCC don't need to match ...

hope this helps anyone who gets thrown by it!