Let me paste from the Arch Linux wiki documentation:
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Difference between qemu and qemu-kvm
Depending on your needs, you can choose either to install upstream qemu
or qemu-kvm from the official repositories.
Upstream QEMU is a pure emulator, with no hardware acceleration. qemu
versions < 0.15.0 do have initial KVM support when QEMU is started with
the -enable-kvm parameter, but this implementation is still buggy and
nowhere as complete as in qemu-kvm, as many functions still do not work.
Starting with qemu version 0.15.0, the qemu-kvm tree has been fully
integrated with the qemu tree, and there should not be any difference
between qemu -enable-kvm and qemu-kvm. See the [QEMU changelog] for more
details.
Upstream QEMU is capable of emulating many different platforms (arm,
i386, m68k, mips, ppc, sparc, x86_64, etc). On the other hand, you have
qemu-kvm, which is qemu (i386 and x86_64 architecture support only) with
KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) additions, allowing you to run
virtual machines at close to native speed. qemu-kvm is the version you
want if you have a CPU that supports hardware virtualization and you
only need to run virtual machines for the i386 and x86_64 architectures
(Linux, Windows, BSD, etc).
Not all processors support KVM. You will need an x86-based machine
running a recent ( >= 2.6.22 ) Linux kernel on an Intel processor with
VT-x (virtualization technology) extensions or an AMD processor with SVM
(Secure Virtual Machine) extensions (also called AMD-V). Xen has a
complete list of compatible processors. For Intel processors, see also
the Intel® Virtualization Technology List.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Difference_between_qemu_and_qemu-kvm
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And now from the qemu changelog
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KVM
Common
Countless fixes ported over from qemu-kvm, core is now shared with
that tree, i.e. has the same quality
Pimped up threading model, now fully synchronized with qemu-kvm tree
Removed dependency on external kernel headers, all supported KVM
features are now built into the binary
http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/0.15#KVM
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What do you think? Can we move?
There is also one important patch missed in Mageia -
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-11/msg00787.html it's
dependency for the GNS3 simulator. OpenSUSE already includes it
https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=qemu&project=openSUSE%3ATools
If nobody is against I will do it and contact the maintainer (misc).
