[fedora-virt] A question about that my cpu do not support KVM

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon May 21 08:49:19 UTC 2012


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
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