On Tuesday 13 November 2007 02:42:49 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok I see what went wrong. > I accidentally had a XEN kernel still running so insmod did not work. > Now it works and the message disappeared. > > But, kqemu is not much faster than qemu. I perceive about 1.5x over a > 1gbit network to a terminal through an x session. > It is much much slower than win4lin, but it is free and > I can live with it under most applications except streaming. > Is there something I could have done wrong? not necessarily wrong, but try qemu with the -kernel-kqemu command line option - ie, qemu -kernel-kqemu -hda WinXP_Home.img
> > Server: Dual Opteron 1.6Ghz/16G SUN V20Z > Terminal: Mac Mini 1.6GHz > Connected with 1Gbit network. > > Jan Jezabek wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Question 1) Does KQemu require Intel VT or AMD-V processors ? > >> > >> Question 2) Qemu runs and XP as guest is working on a Linux FC7 host. > >> > >> I installed kqemu from sources (kqemu-1.3.0pre11.tar.gz) and it > >> configured/mak/make install without errors. > >> > >> However, when I e.g. start a VM, I still get the following error: > >> qemu]# qemu -hda WinXP_Home.img > >> Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated > >> > >> So it seems that devices were never created. there is also no kqemu > >> daemon or anything I can verify kqemu to be running. > >> It is not in processes either. > >> > >> Maybe I misuunderstand how kqemu works, but usually it should be a > >> daemon if it creates a device '/dev/kqemu' at installation ! > >> > >> Any Ideas where I got the cat by the tail? > > > > KQEMU is a kernel module. You'll need to do > > > > /sbin/modprobe kqemu > > > > (as root) before you start QEMU. Then the warning will go away and > > QEMU will be accelerated. > > > > Regards, > > Jan Jezabek
