Talk:KVM

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OpenSUSE 10.3 missing "kvm" package

I installed the kvm-kmp-default package, but could not find the "kvm" package (I'm using OpenSUSE 10.3) mentioned in the article. Perhaps this missing package contains the kvm-modified QEMU? I could not find that on my system or install source either. I found what appears to be the regular QEMU packages, but they do not seem to have the kvm-specific features. So to work around this, I downloaded the latest kvm sources and built the qemu subdirectory manually, and run the qemu-system-x86_64 and qemu-image executables I built.

OpenSUSE 11.0 has the kvm package

OpenSUSE 11.0 contains both the kvm and kvm-kmp-* packages. The kvm package does appear to contain the modified qemu for kvm (/usr/bin/qemu-kvm). To get the qemu-img executable, you need to also install the normal qemu package. Personally, I have had problems installing SUSE linux products with qemu-kvm (it hangs when it gets to the bootloader installation), but was able to successfully complete installations by running plain qemu emulation (no kvm) using the qemu-system-* executables. Once the VM is installed, it can be run just fine under kvm with qemu-kvm.

Is image absolutely required?

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/user/opensuse.iso (for cd copy)

dd if=/dev/dvd of=/home/user/opensuse.iso (for dvd copy)

Is this required? Cant we directly use the /dev/scd0 or /dev/dvd or whatever device of the host?

I think it is optional, I am trying to install a guest OS using /dev/cdrom by itself vendion 12:04, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Installing windows xp by pointing KVM to /dev/cdrom worked for me vendion 23:15, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Intel Core 2 Duo uses VMX like AMD

I have noticed that Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 shows VMX instead of VT when checking for support for visualization. vendion 17:01, 14 April 2009 (UTC)