Bug 503807 - kqemu is disabled in qemu
Summary: kqemu is disabled in qemu
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: qemu
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Glauber Costa
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-06-02 19:56 UTC by J Gallagher
Modified: 2009-06-02 21:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-06-02 21:15:42 UTC
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Description J Gallagher 2009-06-02 19:56:37 UTC
Description of problem:
qemu doesn't allow -kernel-kqemu option

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-0.10.4-4.fc11.i586

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. try qemu -kernel-kqemu ...
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Actual results:
qemu: invalid option -- '-kernel-kqemu'



Expected results:
kqemu module should be loaded


Additional info:

Comment 1 Glauber Costa 2009-06-02 21:15:42 UTC
This is intended.

Unfortunately, there's no way to build a binary that supports both kvm and kqemu.
There are ongoing upstream threads about it. kqemu is dead technology, not because of its functionalities, but because it imposes *severe* limitation on upstream qemu, and currently no one have the will or skill to maintain it.

In fedora, we don't ship the kernel module, because it is not in upstream kernel. So if you want to run kqemu, you'll need to build the module anyway. Just build your own qemu in that case.


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