QEMU & KVM Need some input

[BGFG]

Hi All,
I was put on to QEMU by Smartboyathome (Thanks man)
now i just want to clear up some stuff.
I've installed QEMU KVM and Qemulator 0.5, It was sugested that i use KQEMU but i want to avoid KDE libraries on my machine.
Question:
Do KVM and QEMU automatically work together or do i need to do something further?

System: Intrepid Ibex X64, Athlon X2 4000+

[smartboyathome]

I've been reading, and you need to rename the QEMU binary

sudo mv qemu-old

then symlink qemu to kvm

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/kvm /usr/bin/qemu

And it should work. But KVM is different than KQEMU.

I can't tell you if KVM works, though, as I'm having problems of my own which I am about to post a new topic on.

BIG EDIT: Disregard the above, I hadn't known about the option to go into Edit > Preferences, then click x86 in the bottom box of the window which shows up, and set it to kvm. Then click add, and delete the first x86 option. Do the same for x86-64 if you want (though not really needed imo).

[red_team316]

On Kubuntu Hardy, all I had to do was install kvm and qemu. Then to fire it up

sudo kvm -cdrom whatever.iso -boot d -m 1024

smartboyathome, I think your codeblock is wrong

[smartboyathome]

On Kubuntu Hardy, all I had to do was install kvm and qemu. Then to fire it up

sudo kvm -cdrom whatever.iso -boot d -m 1024

smartboyathome, I think your codeblock is wrong

I put a big edit above, which says to disregard that, as you can set it to use kvm in the GUI. He's using Qemulator instead of the CLI.

[red_team316]

the error was and still is in your ln command You linked kvm to itself

[smartboyathome]

the error was and still is in your ln command You linked kvm to itself

Oops, fixed.

[bodhi.zazen]

Hi All,
I was put on to QEMU by Smartboyathome (Thanks man)
now i just want to clear up some stuff.
I've installed QEMU KVM and Qemulator 0.5, It was sugested that i use KQEMU but i want to avoid KDE libraries on my machine.
Question:
Do KVM and QEMU automatically work together or do i need to do something further?

System: Intrepid Ibex X64, Athlon X2 4000+

Well, just to clarify a few things.

Unlike most "K" apps, kqemu and kvm are not KDE apps.

Second kqemu is a accelerator for qemu. Unfortunately qemu is still slow even with kqemu

kvm is "Kernel Virtual Machine"

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM

If you have the hardware, it is much much faster then qemu

HTH

[red_team316]

I knew kvm wasn't but I thought kqemu was(learned something). Anyways, forget kqemu like bohdi said. It does nothing for you but kvm is wicked fast. I started using it now instead of Virtualbox as virtualbox can't support 64-bit ISOs.

[bodhi.zazen]

I knew kvm wasn't but I thought kqemu was(learned something). Anyways, forget kqemu like bohdi said. It does nothing for you but kvm is wicked fast. I started using it now instead of Virtualbox as virtualbox can't support 64-bit ISOs.

Sorry, my mistake.

There are actually 2 kqemu.

The first is unrelated to KDE and is kernel module that acts as an accelerator for qemu.

http://bellard.org/qemu/kqemu-tech.html

http://lwn.net/Articles/220807/

The second, which unfortunately has the same name, IS a KDE application and is a GUI front end for qemu.

http://kqemu.sourceforge.net/

[BGFG]

Sorry, my mistake.

There are actually 2 kqemu.

The first is unrelated to KDE and is kernel module that acts as an accelerator for qemu.

http://bellard.org/qemu/kqemu-tech.html

http://lwn.net/Articles/220807/

The second, which unfortunately has the same name, IS a KDE application and is a GUI front end for qemu.

http://kqemu.sourceforge.net/

Thanks to all for the responses, Was beginning to think i was being ignored till i realized you were all probably at work

I managed to get XP installed, but as you all alluded to, it's terribly slow. I don't however have the correct kqemu installed. Will that make any difference ?
As for KVM, i'd like to try it but is it exclusively CLI ? not that i mind but if there was a GUI i'd definitely use it.
I came across Virtual Machine Manager and installed it, is that a useful tool ?

On changing X86 to KVM in Qemulator, do i simply change the "PATH" to KVM ?

Thanks All.