On 01/12/2010 02:29 PM, Alexander Duscheleit wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:41:03 +0100
Simon Boulay<simon.boulay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 01/12/2010 07:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
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So, again, what is the reason for there being a qemu-kvm package,
when it is apparently a subset of the qemu package?
Greetings,
jinks
The size of the package differs enormous. I'll keep both.
I didn't look at them until now, but yes, at 5 MB vs 56 MB this makes
sense.
The size differs because qemu-kvm doesn't build all targets by
default unlike qemu. If you build qemu-kvm with ./configure
--target-list="" both packages will be the same size...
AFAIK the difference between the two is in the kvm implementation.
qemu-kvm is far more advanced in this area (support more targets,
ksm, and certainly many other things regarding the amount of code
differences).
*This* was what i was looking for. I couldn't really find anything
published about the differences between the two different releases in
any prominent place.
Me neither... I found this:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_and_QEMU_merge
and Fedora package source here:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/qemu/devel/
The point is, as kqemu is gone, qemu-kvm can replace
qemu and even provide more functionality. But it is not so clear that
this will be always true.
archlinux choose to offer both packages for two different purposes
and it's fine. But if they are two different applications, why not
make it possible to install both at the same time?
if qemu-kvm ist more advanced in the kvm regard and can offer the same
functionality with an added --target-list, wouldn't it at least make
sense to build both packages from the qemu-kvm sources? (I thought
until now, the kvm sources wouldn't support other targets than
x86(_64).)
As far as I understand, at the moment I have to choose between either
latest and greatest kvm performance *or* multiple target support.
You, archlinux developers make an amazing job. The beauty and the
power of archlinux is that I can easily build qemu and/or qemu-kvm in
my own particular weird way ;-)
+1 :)
Greetings,
Simon.
Greetings,
jinks
P.S.: As a sidenote: Is it normal/intentional that I don't get my own
mails back via the list? Or is this some weird GMail stuff?
