updating my "getting started with QEMU under fedora" howto

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Phil Meyer wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i was going to take what i thought was a couple minutes and update
> > my writeup on QEMU under fedora:
> >
> >   http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/QEMU
> >
> > for fedora 9 but, apparently, it's not going to be a simple s/8/9/g.
> >
> >   there doesn't appear to be a (livna) kqemu-kmdl package anymore;
> > instead, it's kmod-kqemu.  then there's this akmod-kqemu package there
> > as well, which i've never seen before.
> >
> >   i'm sure it won't take long to sort out the new packages, but if
> > this has already been written up somewhere for f9, i'd be fine with
> > that.  otherwise, i'll do it myself.
> >
> > rday
> > --
> >
>
> I am not clear on the differences between the Livna version and the
> Fedora version.
>
> # yum install kvm qemu
>
> That will get both the kvm capable qemu (kvm) and the normal one.
>
> As for the kernel modules, intel-kvm and amd-kvm are both part of
> the main stream kernel since 2.6.20.
>
> What do the Livna versions offer?

not sure -- i'll take a closer look at this later and see what's
relevant and what isn't.

rday
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