[Aboriginal] [PATCH] Rename i686-kvm to i686-virtio

[Alessio Igor Bogani]

Hi Rob,

2011/8/3 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>:
[...]
>> Rename i686-kvm to i686-virtio
>
> Why?
>
> Is there any performance benefit to using virtio in qemu without kvm?

Yes it goes faster.

> (On my system, kvm has virtio but qemu doesn't.  I also don't get the
> accelerator unless I run the name "kvm".)

The reason is fairly simple: run-emulator.sh couldn't know if the host
is KVM capable.
Instead qemu knows it indeed on my Ubuntu Natty system it checks that
condition automatically:

alessio at granny:~$ qemu
open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory
Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support
qemu: pci_add_option_rom: failed to find romfile "pxe-rtl8139.bin"

Ciao,
Alessio

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