Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > Well, you can use QEMU and it will be extremely slow. I think the qemu-kvm > binary will fallback to software QEMU emulation if KVM is not supported. > > One thing you can use to speed it up a bit in kmod-kqemu which you can > found > in the RPM Fusion repository, in the Free section (it got GPLed some time > ago, so it's in the Free section, but Fedora won't carry it because it's > not in the upstream kernel). It's a hack to run some of the code on the > native hardware without needing hardware virtualization. That said, I'm > not > sure whether virt-manager will fire up the correct qemu binary and with > the > correct options to use kqemu. If you run the regular qemu binary (not > qemu-kvm) with no option, it will pick up kqemu. > > That said, AFAIK kqemu doesn't perform anywhere near as well as KVM, also > because kernel code is still emulated entirely in software (there's an > experimental -kernel-kqemu option which tries to use kqemu also for > kernel-space code, but all I ever got out of that option is VM crashes). > > Thanks Kevin The machine I wanted to use to try things out does not have KVM support which is why I asked.... but it seems just possible that a VM might work with qemu/kqemu even without kvm though I will have to just try it and see what happens - and although slower than kvm maybe it would not so bad that it is unusable. On the machine in question I am happy to play and if it does not work then it is not a major loss - but worth learning on! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Virtual-Box-tp22626076p22650241.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
