[fedora-virt] remaining userspace kvm packages?
Glauber Costa
glommer at redhat.com
Wed Apr 8 15:02:12 UTC 2009
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:38:32AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Glauber Costa wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:44:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > > AFAICT, there's qemu-kvm-tools for debugging and diagnostics,
> > > and not a lot more. is that about right? everything else
> > > kvm-related pretty much comes with your qemu install.
>
> > right. There's just this package. Humm.... guess we could have a
> > qemu-tools that include this + qemu-img ?
>
> i'm not sure that's necessary, i just think there needs to be a
> clear list of what's installable and the corresponding dependencies,
> qemu-wise. i took a quick look at the output from "yum search qemu"
> on f11 and, from that, it looks like the following:
>
> * if you want simple system emulation for a single architecture,
> then:
>
> # yum install qemu-system-<arch> {arch=arm,mips,ppc,...}
>
> * if you want user-mode emulation for *any* architecture, then you
> need to separately:
>
> # yum install qemu-user
>
> * if you want to manipulate disk images, then:
>
> # yum install qemu-img
>
> * if you want to install *all* of the above as a meta-package,
> including system emulation for all supported architectures, then:
>
> # yum install qemu
>
> * if you want a graphical qemu front-end:
>
> # yum install qemu-launcher
>
> * if you want KVM debugging and diagnostic tools:
>
> # yum install qemu-kvm-tools
>
> did i miss anything? if i were new to qemu in f11, that's pretty
> much all i'd want to know -- what's available and what i need for what
> i'm trying to do.
That appears to be correct.
>
> and, no, i'm not done with dumb questions yet. you only wish.
I don't wish that ;-)
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