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diff --git a/system/qemu-kvm/README b/system/qemu-kvm/README index 99ecff033c..1b864b7335 100644 --- a/system/qemu-kvm/README +++ b/system/qemu-kvm/README @@ -1,21 +1,21 @@ KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions -(Intel VT or AMD-V). KVM requires QEMU-KVM to create and run virtual -machines (e.g. Windows, Linux, BSD) under full system emulation or user -mode emulation. QEMU-KVM is a slightly modified QEMU designed to work -with KVM kernel modules. +(Intel VT or AMD-V). KVM is divided into the KVM-KMOD package +(kernel modules) and the QEMU-KVM package (slightly modified QEMU) +which are both available as separate Slackbuilds. -KVM consists of a loadable kernel module, 'kvm.ko', that provides the -core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, -'kvm-intel.ko' or 'kvm-amd.ko'. For improved performance QEMU-KVM also -works with 'virtio' modules. Slackware provides pre-built 'kvm' and -'virtio' modules that work with this package. +QEMU-KVM is a generic and open source virtualizer. QEMU-KVM achieves +near native performances by leveraging the KVM-KMOD modules and +executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. QEMU-KVM can +virtualize many system guest types (e.g. alpha, arm, i386, ppc, x86_64, +s390, sparc). Slackware provides pre-built KVM-KMOD modules or you +can build different versions with the KVM-KMOD SlackBuild. -This requires a system group (which defaults to 'kvm') which decides who -can use qemu-kvm. If you want to use a different group, e.g. 'users', -then run the script like this: KVMGROUP=users sh qemu-kvm.SlackBuild +QEMU-KVM requires a system group and uses 'kvm' as the default. If you +want to use a different group like 'users' then run the script like this: +KVMGROUP=users sh qemu-kvm.SlackBuild After package installation, make sure you have the KVMGROUP present on your system and that all desired users are members of that group. -Don't forget to load the 'kvm-intel' or 'kvm-amd' module, which depends -on your processor. +Don't forget to load the KVM-INTEL or KVM-AMD module depending on your +processor. |