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authorNikos Skalkotos <skalkoto@gmail.com>2011-05-19 10:15:33 -0500
committerRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2011-05-19 10:15:33 -0500
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system/qemu-kvm: Build only x86 and x86_64 stuff by default
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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@@ -19,3 +19,11 @@ 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 depending on your
processor.
+
+The script builds only x86 and x86_64 Linux Target CPU emulators by default.
+If you need to emulate all target CPUs, set BUILD_ARCH to "all" but be
+aware that the compilation will take a lot longer, and you should really
+be using plain "qemu" for the others (since they can't use the KVM stuff
+anyway. The default "x86_64" value works fine for for 32-bit or 64-bit
+QEMU-KVM hosts providing full system emulation supporting Linux, BSD, and
+Windows guests.