[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [announcement] qemu/qemu-kvm announcement draft

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Samstag 09 Januar 2010 schrieb Simon Boulay:
> 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 at 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.
Why? 
qemu is for those who need more different emulation types.
qemu-kvm is only for 86 emulation with kvm hardware support.
Both differ in files you would need to hack bios file destination etc.
I don't see any need to install both at the same time.

greetings
tpowa
-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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