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Diffstat (limited to 'system')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/qemu-kvm/README | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.SlackBuild | 18 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/system/qemu-kvm/README b/system/qemu-kvm/README index 1b864b7335..4c9a99a300 100644 --- a/system/qemu-kvm/README +++ b/system/qemu-kvm/README @@ -19,3 +19,11 @@ After package installation, make sure you have the KVMGROUP present on your system and that all desired users are members of that group. Don't forget to load the KVM-INTEL or KVM-AMD module depending on your processor. + +The script builds only x86 and x86_64 Linux Target CPU emulators by default. +If you need to emulate all target CPUs, set BUILD_ARCH to "all" but be +aware that the compilation will take a lot longer, and you should really +be using plain "qemu" for the others (since they can't use the KVM stuff +anyway. The default "x86_64" value works fine for for 32-bit or 64-bit +QEMU-KVM hosts providing full system emulation supporting Linux, BSD, and +Windows guests. diff --git a/system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.SlackBuild b/system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.SlackBuild index 1c2768a1de..7902c6f218 100644 --- a/system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.SlackBuild +++ b/system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.SlackBuild @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ PRGNAM=qemu-kvm VERSION=${VERSION:-0.14.0} -BUILD=${BUILD:-1} +BUILD=${BUILD:-2} TAG=${TAG:-_SBo} KVMGROUP=${KVMGROUP:-kvm} @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then esac fi -# The script is set to build all possible Linux Target CPU emulators by default. +# The script builds only x86 and x86_64 Linux Target CPU emulators by default. # Available Linux Target CPUs for full system emulation are: # i386 x86_64 arm cris m68k microblaze mips mipsel mips64 mips64el # ppc ppcemb ppc64 sh4 sh4eb sparc sparc64 @@ -44,11 +44,15 @@ fi # i386 x86_64 alpha arm armeb cris m68k microblaze mips mipsel # ppc ppc64 ppc64abi32 sh4 sh4eb sparc sparc64 sparc32plus # -# To reduce compile time and package size modify the BUILD ARCH line below -# from BUILD_ARCH="" to BUILD_ARCH="x86_64" if you DO NOT need to emulate -# all target CPUs. This works fine for 32-bit or 64-bit QEMU-KVM hosts -# providing full system emulation supporting Linux, BSD and Windows guests. -BUILD_ARCH="" +# If you need to emulate all target CPUs, set BUILD_ARCH to "all" but be +# aware that the compilation will take a lot longer, and you should really +# be using plain "qemu" for the others (since they can't use the KVM stuff +# anyway. The default "x86_64" value works fine for for 32-bit or 64-bit +# QEMU-KVM hosts providing full system emulation supporting Linux, BSD, and +# Windows guests. + +BUILD_ARCH=${BUILD_ARCH:-x86_64} +[ "$BUILD_ARCH" = "all" ] && unset BUILD_ARCH CWD=$(pwd) TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo} |