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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to
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On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> wrote:
> In contrast, you can throw arbitrary Linux distros in various forms at
> QEMU, and it will catch and run them. For me, already this is more usable.

Yes, I completely agree that this is an unfortunate limitation in the
KVM tool. We definitely need to support booting to images which have
virtio drivers enabled.

                         Pekka