Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze



Martin Kraus wrote:
My question is, why there are two apparently identical qemu packages. Which
one should I use with kvm.

** I didn't take the time to check that out, so I may be wrong **

The kvm userspace utility is in fact a modified qemu which takes advantage of hardware tech via the kvm kernel subsystem - and nothing more.

You can see the command-line resemblance, and the fact that the kvm package is just a virtual package provided by qemu-kvm.

To answer your question, I'd say you just can't use kvm without the modified qemu utility (named "kvm", provided by qemu-kvm). And if you can, well, you should still use it, since it has to be developed for some reason (supposedly optimization).

-thib


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