A question about that my cpu do not support KVM

[wei]

Hello,

I want to play with the LIBVIRT ,So I should install the KVM .
But my old cpu do not support it ,Can I just install the QEMU instead?
Many thanks!

wei from china

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 04:14:45PM +0800, wei wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to play with the LIBVIRT ,So I should install the KVM .
> But my old cpu do not support it ,Can I just install the QEMU instead?

Yes, you can use plain QEMU, but beware that you will find virtual
machines to be *very* slow since it is doing pure emulation. The
basic libvirt usage should all work fine & normal speed though.
Only stuff inside the guest is impacted

Daniel