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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kvm or qemu-kvm?
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:42:23 +0200
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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.