[fedora-virt] Am I using kvm?

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Tue Aug 11 17:59:17 UTC 2009


On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:00:08 +0100
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> It would have offered you 'kvm' is that was available, so you'll be
> using QEMU.   You want to check 'virsh capabilities' to verify that
> libvirt actually detected presence of KVM.  'virsh dumpxml GUEST'
> should also show  type='kvm' and <emulator> pointing go qemu-kvm if
> virt-manager actually requested it.

OK, I found it was the BIOS - it only took two tries to fix
it since I missed the fine print saying I also had to power
cycle the machine for the change to take effect :-).

Now virsh capabilities does indeed mention kvm. Thanks for
the info.




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