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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Qemu dead?
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:57:24
Message-Id: 4E8513AF.9080303@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Qemu dead? by Matthew Finkel
1 On 09/29/11 16:07, Matthew Finkel wrote:
2 >
3 > $ cat /usr/bin/kvm
4 > #!/bin/sh
5 > exec /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm "$@"
6 >
7 >
8 > But I was under the impression you can only use -enable-kvm if you have
9 > KVM built into the kernel/load the module.
10 >
11
12 It will spit out a warning, but work normally (albeit slowly). Anyway,
13 my point was that the kvm "binary" is just qemu with "--enable-kvm"
14 passed to it. So, if you want the latest qemu, emerge qemu-kvm, and run
15 it without the "--enable-kvm".