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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
commit7cb823a3fa4ac5fafb8ec1a32deae94ea08d6303 (patch)
treeff45d7c3b18c1a21bf9ade51c1940d063a0482f2 /system
parent2ec9de67472e6802845998edccc222f81ca04cd2 (diff)
downloadslackbuilds-7cb823a3fa4ac5fafb8ec1a32deae94ea08d6303.tar.gz
system/kvm-kmod: Clean up leftover verbiage wrt qemu-kvm
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'system')
-rw-r--r--system/kvm-kmod/README19
-rw-r--r--system/kvm-kmod/slack-desc10
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/system/kvm-kmod/README b/system/kvm-kmod/README
index 83a8145364..0448c08d8e 100644
--- a/system/kvm-kmod/README
+++ b/system/kvm-kmod/README
@@ -1,18 +1,19 @@
-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.
diff --git a/system/kvm-kmod/slack-desc b/system/kvm-kmod/slack-desc
index dcaf1dd8d1..c6d2c3def6 100644
--- a/system/kvm-kmod/slack-desc
+++ b/system/kvm-kmod/slack-desc
@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@
# leave one space after the ':'.
|-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
-kvm-kmod: kvm-kmod (KVM kernel modules only)
+kvm-kmod: kvm-kmod (kvm kernel modules only)
kvm-kmod:
-kvm-kmod: KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution
+kvm-kmod: kvm (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution
kvm-kmod: for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions
kvm-kmod: (Intel VT or AMD-V).
kvm-kmod:
-kvm-kmod: KVM is divided into the KVM-KMOD package (kernel modules) and the
-kvm-kmod: QEMU-KVM package (slightly modified QEMU) which are both available
-kvm-kmod: as separate Slackbuilds.
+kvm-kmod: kvm is divided into the kvm-kmod package (kernel modules) and the
+kvm-kmod: qemu package which are both available as separate Slackbuilds.
+kvm-kmod:
kvm-kmod:
kvm-kmod: