9 Jan
2010
9 Jan
'10
9:28 p.m.
On 01/09/2010 09:09 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Samstag 09 Januar 2010 schrieb Dan McGee: >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Tobias Powalowski<t.powa@gmx.de> wrote: >>> > Yes will change the install message. >>> >>>> Yes there is no mention in the changelogs, really strange. >>>> greetings >>>> tpowa >>> >>> Ok like this? >>> echo ">>> Since kernel 2.6.29:" >>> echo ">>> Qemu package now provides standard qemu with kvm enabled." >>> echo "" >>> echo ">>> PLEASE READ FOR KVM USAGE!" >>> echo ">>> Load the correct KVM module, you will need a KVM capable >>> CPU!" echo ">>> Add yourself to the group 'kvm'." >>> echo ">>> Use 'qemu --enable-kvm' to use KVM." >>> echo "" >>> echo "With the release of qemu and qemu-kvm 0.12.X, the kqemu kernel >>> module" echo "is no longer supported and will be removed from the >>> repositories. You" echo "can safely uninstall it from your system." >> >> Can we put some vercmp checks around messages like this? That way >> people only have to see them once (when they upgrade the first time to >> a 0.12.x version for the second message). The first message should >> really be a post_install message. >> >> And with all that said, why are there two packages in extra if "qemu >> package now provides standard qemu with kvm enabled"? >> >> -Dan >> > Yes sure i can add those vercmp stuff. > qemu and qemu-kvm is different. > qemu-kvm is only for kvm while qemu provides much more machines to emulate. I'm not sure about that. Both seems to share the same code for machine emulation; only the kvm stuff is different. In fedora 12, they build kvm and qemu-system-xxx from qemu-kvm 0.11. But I don't know how this will evolve in the future. If qemu and qemu-kvm are used for different purposes, one may need to install both apps side by side but that's not possible in archlinux. I see two ways to handle that: 1. Permit the installation of both applications at the same time (qemu for system emulation, qemu-kvm for visualization). qemu-kvm executables can be renamed to kvm-xyz. That's what Debian do. 2. Build qemu-kvm with --target="" and all came in the same package. With 0.11, only qemu provided kqemu but as the kqemu support is gone, the second proposition seems to be the way to go. I use this on archlinux for kvm (winXP) and sh or arm emulation without problems since 0.11. Simon. > greetings > tpowa