Am Samstag 09 Januar 2010 schrieb Simon Boulay: > On 01/09/2010 09:09 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > Am Samstag 09 Januar 2010 schrieb Dan McGee: > >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Tobias Powalowski<t.powa@xxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > Yes will change the install message. > >>>> > >>>> Yes there is no mention in the changelogs, really strange. > >>>> greetings > >>>> tpowa > >>> > >>> Ok like this? > >>> echo ">>> Since kernel 2.6.29:" > >>> echo ">>> Qemu package now provides standard qemu with kvm enabled." > >>> echo "" > >>> echo ">>> PLEASE READ FOR KVM USAGE!" > >>> echo ">>> Load the correct KVM module, you will need a KVM capable > >>> CPU!" echo ">>> Add yourself to the group 'kvm'." > >>> echo ">>> Use 'qemu --enable-kvm' to use KVM." > >>> echo "" > >>> echo "With the release of qemu and qemu-kvm 0.12.X, the kqemu kernel > >>> module" echo "is no longer supported and will be removed from the > >>> repositories. You" echo "can safely uninstall it from your system." > >> > >> Can we put some vercmp checks around messages like this? That way > >> people only have to see them once (when they upgrade the first time to > >> a 0.12.x version for the second message). The first message should > >> really be a post_install message. > >> > >> And with all that said, why are there two packages in extra if "qemu > >> package now provides standard qemu with kvm enabled"? > >> > >> -Dan > > > > Yes sure i can add those vercmp stuff. > > qemu and qemu-kvm is different. > > qemu-kvm is only for kvm while qemu provides much more machines to > > emulate. > > I'm not sure about that. Both seems to share the same code for machine > emulation; only the kvm stuff is different. In fedora 12, they build kvm > and qemu-system-xxx from qemu-kvm 0.11. But I don't know how this will > evolve in the future. > If qemu and qemu-kvm are used for different purposes, one may need to > install both apps side by side but that's not possible in archlinux. Why? qemu is for those who need more different emulation types. qemu-kvm is only for 86 emulation with kvm hardware support. Both differ in files you would need to hack bios file destination etc. I don't see any need to install both at the same time. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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