KVM compilation problems on multiple Ubuntu releases

[Wenzel]

This ticket tracks the various issues users have encountered while trying to compile kvm-vmi/kvm on various Ubuntu releases (18.04 / 20.04 / 22.04).

Related tickets

• https://github.com/KVM-VMI/kvm-vmi/issues/124
• https://github.com/KVM-VMI/kvm-vmi/issues/100
• https://github.com/KVM-VMI/kvm/issues/57
• https://github.com/KVM-VMI/kvm/issues/54

Github Actions workflow

A workflow has been added to build kvm on Ubuntu 18.04/20.04/22.04, with Ubuntu's kernel config as main config. It contains the kernel config feature that needs to be tweaked to build our (old) kvm, and keep the compatibility: https://github.com/KVM-VMI/kvm-vmi/pull/148

TODO

• [ ] update documentation