Re: kvm binary names

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:57:50AM -0700, jd wrote:
> 
> Hi
>    What is the motivation for having different kvm binary names on various linux distributions.. ? 
> 
> -- kvm
> -- qemu-system-x86_84
> -- qemu-kvm

I can tell you the history from the Fedora POV at least...

We already had 'qemu', 'qemu-system-x86_64', etc from the existing
plain qemu emulator RPMs we distributed.

The KVM makefile creates a binary call qemu-system-x86_64 but this
clashes with the existing QEMU RPM, so we had to rename it somehow
to allow parallel installation of KVM and QEMU RPMs.

KVM already ships with a python script called 'kvm' and we didn't
want to clash with that either, so we eventually settled on calling
it 'qemu-kvm'. Other distros didn't worry about clash with the python
script so called their binary just 'kvm'

Ultimately this mess will resolve itself as all of KVM gets merged into
upstream QEMU and we no longer have a separate code fork. So the regular
QEMU RPM's qemu-system-x86_64 emulator binary will have KVM support
builtin by default

Regards,
Daniel
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