From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kvm or qemu-kvm?
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:42:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC4DBEF.5060408@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254277318.17951.26.camel@markov.biostat.ucsf.edu>
On 09/30/2009 04:21 AM, Ross Boylan wrote:
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/HOWTO1 says to build kvm I should get the
> latest kvm-release.tar.gz.
>
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Downloads says "If you want to use the
> latest version of KVM kernel modules and supporting userspace, you can
> download the latest version from
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180599."
> That page shows the latest version is qemu-kvm-0.11.0.tar.gz.
>
> The most recent kvm-release.tar.gz appears to be for kvm-88.
>
> So which file should I start from?
>
qemu-kvm is the userspace component, kvm-kmod is the kernel component as
an external module. 'kvm' is a package containing both.
In general the best place to start is with the distro provided packages.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-01 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 2:21 kvm or qemu-kvm? Ross Boylan
2009-10-01 1:51 ` Charles Duffy
2009-10-01 15:56 ` Ross Boylan
2009-10-01 16:42 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-10-01 16:51 ` Ross Boylan
2009-10-01 17:02 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-10 16:28 ` René Pfeiffer
2009-10-10 17:03 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-10-01 18:06 ` Jim Paris
2009-10-01 18:35 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-01 18:53 ` Jim Paris
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