On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Martin Kraus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. I have been wondering what is the difference between qemu and qemu-kvm > packages > for kvm virtualization. Manual page in qemu packages shows, that it should be > able to work with kvm. Uncle google is silent about this. >
To run kvm, you need virtualization support in your processor. To test for this, run the following egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo If there's output, you can run kvm. Formally and in Lenny, there were two packages: qemu and kvm. If your processor couldn't run kvm, you would install that and run qemu (and use module-assistant to compile & install the qemu accelerator module). However, I believe that in Squeeze there is just one package: qemu-kvm and both kvm and qemu are just virtual packages. For more info, install qemu-kvm and read README.Debian.gz in /usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
