[arch-general] qemu vs. qemu-kvm
If I'm not mistaken, there is no longer any substantial difference between these packages is there? Thanks. =-Jameson
I just happened to look for same information not so long ago. There will be no major differences when 1.3 will be out, for reference see: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.3#KVM So it seems, that as long as you do not use PCI device assignment, 1.2 should work for you as well, but I haven't tested it (I wait for 1.3). Cheers, Andrzej.
I'm using qemu-kvm 1.2 and it works (for me) much better than qemu. Under standard qemu I was unable to install windows xp guest (bluescreen during installation), and on other guests disk and network with virtio was unbelievable slow. I'm testing it right now with linux mint livecd; under qemu-kvm it booted in less than 3 minutes to login screen, under qemu (with -enable-kvm) it took more than 6 minutes. With `lsof /dev/kvm` I can see that both qemu-kvm and qemu were using acceleration. I have no experience with qemu 1.3. -- Krzysztof Warzecha
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Andrzej Giniewicz
I just happened to look for same information not so long ago. There will be no major differences when 1.3 will be out, for reference see:
That's good news. It will simplify things for me a bit. Not completely, though, as I'm actually using qemu-kvm-spice from the AUR. It'll be nice to have it down to qemu, and qemu-spice as the two options, though. =-Jameson
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Andrzej Giniewicz
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Krzysztof Warzecha