[arch-dev-public] KVM & Paravirtualization
Jason Chu
jason at archlinux.org
Sun Jun 3 14:42:17 EDT 2007
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 12:47:41PM +0200, Alexander Baldeck wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> some of you may have noticed that we have a couple of feature requests
> on flyspray [1] [2] regarding a new KVM and paravirtualization. I've
> been messing with KVM on Linuxtag. So far it works well but there's a
> few issues with it:
>
> 1) makes no sense to port to non-x86_64
> - i686 has kqemu - the kqemu on x86_64 is pretty much useless btw
> - I have never heard of a 32bit CPU that actually supports this
> - correct me if I'm wrong
I'm pretty sure my Core Duo has it. It's only 32bit.
> 2) it comes with a modified version of Qemu that only provides
> qemu-system-$CARCH and thus conflicts with qemu itself
> - merge with qemu package?
> - strip qemu-system-$CARCH off of qemu package?
What about the way the kvm package in AUR works? It creates a qemu-kvm and
puts all the binaries in a different directory (so qemu-system-$CARCH
doesn't conflict).
> 3) KVM modules in our kernel26 are very outdated and should be removed
> in favor of the ones provided by the KVM source tarball
I agree.
> 4) split KVM into kvm-qemu & kvm-modules?
That's usually how we do it...
> I have not yet tried to enable options like suggested in [2] yet but
> will do so soon.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -H
>
> [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7331
> [2] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7337
I also disagree with some of the sentiment that you only need qemu or kvm.
I have vmware, qemu, and kvm installed right now. I have them all serving
different purposes and each of them breaks for one reason or another as
updates happen :P
Jason
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