On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone done a kvm or qemu installation in LFS?  Right now I'm
> working on dracut so I can put in instruction for an initramfs in the
> filesystems section of the book, but the testing wants either a kvm or
> qemu installation to run.
>
> I can back up and research these and put them in the book, but I am
> hoping someone else has already done at least one of them and will share
> the instructions/notes.
>
>   -- Bruce
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./configure --prefix=/usr \
  --audio-drv-list=alsa  &&
make  &&
make install

will install qemu.  (BTW, make -j# uses up a ton of ram for some reason)

Some of the kvm have been upstreamed into qemu, so I usually just use
that these days.

To create an image
qemu-img create -f qcow2 filename.img 20G

(There are other formats,  including raw which seems to be quite popular)

and to run w/ paravirtualized hardware
qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -drive file=filename.img,if=virtio \
  -net nic,model=virtio -net tap \
  -m 1024 -localtime -soundhw hda \
  -enable-kvm

simplified a bit...
qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -drive file=filename.img \
  -net nic -net tap \
  -m 1024 -localtime -soundhw hda \
  -enable-kvm

I had -cpu host at one point, but I think they changed that (was
supose to present the same CPU that your host had).

-boot c boots the first drive, -boot d boots the 2nd one

See the bridgeutils thread for my bridgeutils integration

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