Am Dienstag 12 Januar 2010 schrieb Simon Boulay:
On 01/12/2010 02:29 PM, Alexander Duscheleit wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:41:03 +0100
Simon Boulay<simon.boulay@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/12/2010 07:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
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So, again, what is the reason for there being a qemu-kvm package, when it is apparently a subset of the qemu package?
Greetings, jinks
The size of the package differs enormous. I'll keep both.
I didn't look at them until now, but yes, at 5 MB vs 56 MB this makes sense.
The size differs because qemu-kvm doesn't build all targets by default unlike qemu. If you build qemu-kvm with ./configure --target-list="" both packages will be the same size... AFAIK the difference between the two is in the kvm implementation. qemu-kvm is far more advanced in this area (support more targets, ksm, and certainly many other things regarding the amount of code differences).
*This* was what i was looking for. I couldn't really find anything published about the differences between the two different releases in any prominent place.
Me neither... I found this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_and_QEMU_merge and Fedora package source here: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/qemu/devel/
If you really want all things build from qemu-kvm you can still use abs for this task. In the early days of kvm, qemu-kvm was always more bleeding edge than qemu. As i said, i'll keep the packages as they are now. If more info is provided which one will dropped upstream we can switch to this and remove the other package. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org