On 06/14/2012 11:05 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

   embarrassingly, i only just noticed that if i want my
yocto-generated qemu images to take advantage of kvm, i should add the
arg "kvm" to my "runqemu" invocation, is that correct?

Correct.

   if that's the case, might it be worth adding that note to the
standard oe-init-build-env output at the bottom?  or perhaps referring
the user to the output of "runqemu -h" for available run-time options?

Since the oe-init-build-env script gets invoked for many scenarios that don't involve running runqemu, I'm not convinced that the info is needed - it might be nice to have, but we don't want to clutter the output with too much info.

   at the moment, it seems awfully easy to run your qemu image without
realizing you're not taking advantage of kvm.  or am i misreading
something?

I've been running my QEMU sessions without kvm and it hasn't been a big deal. Since we do mention its use in the runqemu usage help, IMHO it's appropriately documented.

I'm not sure what the status is of kvm support in the various environments that Yocto is run in, so enabling kvm by default may not be safe. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks for the feedback,

Scott

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Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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