Re: qemu-kvm

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Simon Kagstrom wrote:
> At Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:50:23 +0200,
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> Baruch Even wrote:
>>     
>>> Can the Qemu built with KVM support run without KVM? Froma quick perusal
>>> of the kvm.patch it seems that there are places where USE_KVM implies a
>>> qemu-panic without any runtime conditionals.
>>>       
>> qemu-kvm.patch is an older release.  With the new release, it should be 
>> possible to run without kvm.  Let me know (or better, send patches) if 
>> there are any such places in kvm-2.
>>     
>
> One thing I've thought about (and quickly hacked on) is to "detect"
> the presense of KVM and use it if it is there and use "plain" qemu if
> it is not. The question is if this is behavior that the rest of you
> would like, I'll send a patch if so.
>   

I think it is indeed desirable.  Please send the patch.

Of course, -no-kvm should not use kvm even if it there.


> One thing which I've changed is to return errors from libkvm instead
> of directly exiting. Personally I think this behavior is preferred
> since it does not force decisions upon the program using the library.
>   

The exit()s are a hack, of course.


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