On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:46:17AM -0400, Jim Paris wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 05:47:15PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a VM running under libvirt, and it is currently run with > > > -no-kvm option (I saw that in "ps" output). > > > Now I want to run this VM with KVM. How can I reconfigure it for that? > > > > > > I looked into its configuration file under /etc/libvirt/qemu, but > > > didnt see any option to turn KVM on. > > > > Run 'virsh edit GUEST' and on the top <domain> element, change the > > type attribute to be 'kvm' instead of 'qemu'. > > Speaking of this, I've noticed that > > <domain type='qemu'> > <os> > <type arch='i686' machine='pc'>hvm</type> > </os> > </domain> > > runs WITH kvm on an x86_64 system. Is that intended? No, its not intended ! > It seems that this comment in qemu_conf.c: > > /* Need to explicitly disable KVM if > * 1. Arch matches host arch > * 2. Guest domain is 'qemu' > * 3. The qemu binary has the -no-kvm flag > */ > > might need to expand #1 to consider i686 == x86_64? I'm actually wondering why we bother with #1 at all. If the binary has '-no-kvm' and the domain is 'qemu', then it should be used no matter what arch. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list