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author | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2013-04-17 00:31:21 -0500 |
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committer | Niels Horn <niels.horn@slackbuilds.org> | 2013-04-28 12:23:24 -0300 |
commit | 7a56f78ad7b68bcac2974da4387450cc6e997e42 (patch) | |
tree | 27b82387d60155cfb1ae8281d72352652f15999b /system/qemu/README | |
parent | 2f37dd822b309926f408423893dcd1182dc1107c (diff) | |
download | slackbuilds-7a56f78ad7b68bcac2974da4387450cc6e997e42.tar.gz |
system/qemu: Clean up some left over verbiage wrt qemu-kvm
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'system/qemu/README')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/system/qemu/README b/system/qemu/README index 514b17ff6c..371ba6d75b 100644 --- a/system/qemu/README +++ b/system/qemu/README @@ -4,11 +4,10 @@ When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performances. -qemu-kvm achieves near native performances by leveraging the kvm-kmod -modules and executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. -Slackware provides pre-built 32/64 bit x86 kvm-kmod modules or you can -build different versions with the kvm-kmod package. -qemu-kvm code has been merged back into qemu since version 1.3.0. +qemu (with kvm enabled) achieves near native performances by leveraging +the kvm-kmod modules and executing the guest code directly on the host +CPU. Slackware provides pre-built 32/64 bit x86 kvm-kmod modules or you +can build different versions with the kvm-kmod package. By default, this script builds only the x86 and arm emulation targets for qemu; if you prefer to build all supported targets, do this: @@ -22,6 +21,8 @@ something different, then run the build script like this: KVMGROUP=group ./qemu.SlackBuild Don't forget to load the 'kvm-intel' or 'kvm-amd' module (depending on -your processor) prior to launching qemu-system-x86_64 with kvm enabled. +your processor) prior to launching qemu-system-ARCH with kvm enabled. +For older/unmaintained qemu frontends, this build also creates a symlink +to qemu-system-ARCH at /usr/bin/qemu-kvm. spice and usbredir are optional dependencies. |