On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 04:41:03PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Like this? > > upstream qemu | default |-enable-kvm > ----------------+-----------+----------- > KVM available | disabled | enabled > KVM unavailable | disabled | fail > > qemu-kvm | default |-enable-kvm| -no-kvm > ----------------+-----------+-----------+----------- > KVM available | enabled* | enabled | disabled > KVM unavailable | disabled | fail | disabled > > * differs from upstream
libguestfs wants "best effort" behaviour, and libvirt wants "KVM or die" behaviour. Avi, can you comment on whether just opening /dev/kvm O_RDWR is a reasonable way to detect if KVM is available? Markus, any idea when we might get the -accel option appearing in released versions of qemu/KVM? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
