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authorRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2013-04-17 00:25:31 -0500
committerNiels Horn <niels.horn@slackbuilds.org>2013-04-28 12:23:20 -0300
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system/kvm-kmod: Clean up leftover verbiage wrt qemu-kvm
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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-KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution
+kvm (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution
for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions
-(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.
+(Intel VT or AMD-V). kvm is divided into the kvm-kmod package
+(kernel modules) and the qemu package which are both available as
+separate Slackbuilds.
-KVM-KMOD consists of a kernel module, 'kvm.ko', that provides the
+kvm-kmod consists of a kernel module, 'kvm.ko', that provides the
core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module,
'kvm-intel.ko' or 'kvm-amd.ko'. Slackware provides these modules
in the 'a/kernel-modules*' packages. In most cases, the provided
-versions are sufficient to run QEMU-KVM. KVM-KMOD is only needed
-if you want to change the KVM modules to a different version.
+versions are sufficient to run qemu with kvm support. This kvm-kmod
+package is only needed if you want to change the kvm modules to a
+different version.
-KVM-KMOD updates the modules without overwriting the ones provided
-by Slackware. If you uninstall KVM-KMOD, you will need to run
+kvm-kmod updates the modules without overwriting the ones provided
+by Slackware. If you uninstall kvm-kmod, you will need to run
'depmod -a' to regenerate the modules.dep and map files to regain
access to the Slackware provided versions.