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-rw-r--r--system/qemu-kvm/README28
-rw-r--r--system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.SlackBuild2
-rw-r--r--system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.info8
-rw-r--r--system/qemu-kvm/slack-desc6
4 files changed, 22 insertions, 22 deletions
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.
diff --git a/system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.SlackBuild b/system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.SlackBuild
index 46ec409263..b8936b6fd7 100644
--- a/system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.SlackBuild
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
# ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
PRGNAM=qemu-kvm
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.12.4}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.12.5}
BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
diff --git a/system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.info b/system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.info
index f73f7c71d1..9f95e9351c 100644
--- a/system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.info
+++ b/system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
PRGNAM="qemu-kvm"
-VERSION="0.12.4"
+VERSION="0.12.5"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page"
-DOWNLOAD="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/kvm/qemu-kvm/0.12.4/qemu-kvm-0.12.4.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="1c48b94f58403fb24247f9b5fb6abb9f"
+DOWNLOAD="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/kvm/qemu-kvm/0.12.5/qemu-kvm-0.12.5.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="c7303c30432dc4eb0a39bb85a9d15cc9"
DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
MD5SUM_x86_64=""
MAINTAINER="Stu Miller"
EMAIL="slackbuilds@go4it2day.com"
-APPROVED="rworkman"
+APPROVED="Erik Hanson"
diff --git a/system/qemu-kvm/slack-desc b/system/qemu-kvm/slack-desc
index 669db40686..52c2c6bb42 100644
--- a/system/qemu-kvm/slack-desc
+++ b/system/qemu-kvm/slack-desc
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ qemu-kvm: KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution
qemu-kvm: for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions
qemu-kvm: (Intel VT or AMD-V).
qemu-kvm:
-qemu-kvm: QEMU_KVM is a slightly modified QEMU designed to work with KVM
-qemu-kvm: kernel modules.
-qemu-kvm:
+qemu-kvm: KVM is divided into the KVM-KMOD package (kernel modules) and the
+qemu-kvm: QEMU-KVM package (slightly modified QEMU) which are both available
+qemu-kvm: as separate Slackbuilds.
qemu-kvm:
qemu-kvm: