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-rw-r--r-- | system/qemu-kvm/README | 28 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.SlackBuild | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | system/qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm.info | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | system/qemu-kvm/slack-desc | 6 |
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: |