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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around Qemu to
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To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org list" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

On 08/24/2011 08:40 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> >  +
> >  +       # Qemu's own build system calls it qemu-system-x86_64
> >  +       [ "$QEMU_BIN" ] || QEMU_BIN=$(which qemu-system-x86_64 2>/dev/null)
>
> If you run qemu-system-x86_64 on an i386 host, will it use kvm at all?

I think it will, and that's actually a bug, since kvm doesn't support 
virtualizing long mode on a 32-bit host.


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