[fedora-virt] remaining userspace kvm packages?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Glauber Costa wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:44:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> >   AFAICT, there's qemu-kvm-tools for debugging and diagnostics,
> > and not a lot more.  is that about right?  everything else
> > kvm-related pretty much comes with your qemu install.

> right. There's just this package. Humm.... guess we could have a
> qemu-tools that include this + qemu-img ?

  i'm not sure that's necessary, i just think there needs to be a
clear list of what's installable and the corresponding dependencies,
qemu-wise.  i took a quick look at the output from "yum search qemu"
on f11 and, from that, it looks like the following:

* if you want simple system emulation for a single architecture,
then:

    # yum install qemu-system-<arch>    {arch=arm,mips,ppc,...}

* if you want user-mode emulation for *any* architecture, then you
need to separately:

    # yum install qemu-user

* if you want to manipulate disk images, then:

    # yum install qemu-img

* if you want to install *all* of the above as a meta-package,
including system emulation for all supported architectures, then:

    # yum install qemu

* if you want a graphical qemu front-end:

    # yum install qemu-launcher

* if you want KVM debugging and diagnostic tools:

    # yum install qemu-kvm-tools

  did i miss anything?  if i were new to qemu in f11, that's pretty
much all i'd want to know -- what's available and what i need for what
i'm trying to do.

  and, no, i'm not done with dumb questions yet.  you only wish.

rday
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