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Re: [Libguestfs] [fedora-virt] Question about libguestfs (guestfish) and KVM support
- From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones redhat com>
- To: Danel Ahman <danel111 gmail com>
- Cc: virt lists fedoraproject org, libguestfs redhat com
- Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] [fedora-virt] Question about libguestfs (guestfish) and KVM support
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:00:14 +0100
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:28:50PM +0300, Danel Ahman wrote:
> Does the libguestfs 1.0.85 found on EPEL repository support qemu-kvm
> for KVM or does it use pure qemu?
>
> While running guestfish and other utilities of the family I get an
> warning about kqemu kernel accellerator and the whole thing works
> slowly (seems that it uses qemu).
libguestfs in EPEL does not use KVM. This is because of (what we
think may be) a bug in the EPEL repository:
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/2982
You can easily use KVM however. Just set the LIBGUESTFS_QEMU
environment variable:
export LIBGUESTFS_QEMU=/usr/bin/qemu-kvm
See also:
http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#qemu_wrappers
Rich.
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