[libvirt] How to config my VM to use KVM with libvirt?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 05:47:15PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a VM running under libvirt, and it is currently run with
> -no-kvm option (I saw that in "ps" output).
> Now I want to run this VM with KVM. How can I reconfigure it for that?
> 
> I looked into its configuration file under /etc/libvirt/qemu, but
> didnt see any option to turn KVM on.

Run 'virsh edit GUEST'  and on the top <domain> element, change the
type attribute to be 'kvm' instead of 'qemu'. ALso in the 
<emulator> element change the path to point to /usr/bin/qemu-kvm


NB, make sure you have the kvm modules loaded of course, otherwise it'll
still fallback to emulation

Daniel
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