Re: KVM on Debian

[Mark van Walraven <markv@netvalue.net.nz>]

Hi,

An update in the hope that this is useful to someone :-)

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:03:03AM +1200, Mark van Walraven wrote:
> My next step is to try qemu-kvm, built from source.  The Debianised libvirt
> expects the kvm binaries to be in /usr/bin/kvm, so you can symlink them
> from /usr/local/bin if you prefer to install there.  I've also experimented
> with shell script wrapper in /usr/bin/kvm that condenses the output of
> qemu-kvm --help so that libvirtd for Lenny works.

Actually, the current Debian Lenny libvirt* (0.4.6-10) seem to work
fine with qemu-kvm-0.10.5 built from source.  All I needed to do was
symlink /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 to /usr/bin/kvm and copy
extboot.bin into /usr/local/share/qemu/ (I used the one from the
kvm 85+dfsg-3 package in Experimental).

So far, so good.

Mark.