Re: [Slackbuilds-users] qemu and qemu-kvm descriptions could really do with a bit of clarification

2013-04-16 Thread King Beowulf
On 04/15/2013 12:04 PM, B Watson wrote: On 4/15/13, Larry Hajali larryh...@gmail.com wrote: If there's still mention of kqemu in the qemu README, that's a bug in the README (kqemu support was removed after qemu 0.11.1). Thought I fixed that. So much for the reliability of unpaid help

[Slackbuilds-users] qemu and qemu-kvm descriptions could really do with a bit of clarification

2013-04-15 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I've just spent an hour trying to get my head around to what is the difference between qemu and qemu-kvm and which one do I need. I couldn't even figure out if they somehow need each other. If it wasn't for the page below from the qemu website that states qemu-kvm is actually a fork of qemu

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] qemu and qemu-kvm descriptions could really do with a bit of clarification

2013-04-15 Thread thorsten.johannvorderbrueg...@t-online.de
Hello Sebastian, started with Qemu 1.3 there're share again the same code base ... so you don't need qemu-kvm ... KQemu is quite old .. if you use FreeBSD, then KQemu is your friend ... in any other case, you can ignore it :-) ... and yep .. for x86 compatible proz there're the intel and the

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] qemu and qemu-kvm descriptions could really do with a bit of clarification

2013-04-15 Thread Larry Hajali
I haven't been keeping track of qemu/qemu-kvm status on the Slackware front but I believe that qemu/qemu-kvm will be merged in future SBo updates (reference: http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/2013-February/010190.html). The kqemu is only needed for older versions of qemu for

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] qemu and qemu-kvm descriptions could really do with a bit of clarification

2013-04-15 Thread B Watson
On 4/15/13, Larry Hajali larryh...@gmail.com wrote: If there isn't any output then your processor doesn't support KVM and you will need kqemu for better performance. You will also need an ancient version of qemu, specifically the one built by

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] qemu and qemu-kvm descriptions could really do with a bit of clarification

2013-04-15 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 15/04/13 20:04, B Watson wrote: On 4/15/13, Larry Hajali larryh...@gmail.com wrote: If there isn't any output then your processor doesn't support KVM and you will need kqemu for better performance. You will also need an ancient version of qemu, specifically the one built by

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] qemu and qemu-kvm descriptions could really do with a bit of clarification

2013-04-15 Thread Larry Hajali
Also - I can't seem to find a a definite answer anywhere - is it still possible to run the current qemu on a processor without the virtualization extensions at all? Will it just not use kvm - but still be able to run the same virtual machine (just slower)? Yes, correct. Qemu will just run

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] qemu and qemu-kvm descriptions could really do with a bit of clarification

2013-04-15 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 15/04/13 21:00, Larry Hajali wrote: Also - I can't seem to find a a definite answer anywhere - is it still possible to run the current qemu on a processor without the virtualization extensions at all? Will it just not use kvm - but still be able to run the same virtual