Arch Linux

kvm-28 has been implemented in the following packages:

kvm-modules-28-1-x86_64
qemu-0.9.0-2-x86_64

qemu-system-x86_64 has been replaced with the Qemu/KVM that ships with kvm upstream.
Feel free to play with it on i686, I don't have hardware to test atm.

why is it kvm-modules and not just kvm as all kernel modules are?

kvm upstream also includes qemu ours would not.

> kvm-28 has been implemented in the following packages:
>
> kvm-modules-28-1-x86_64
> qemu-0.9.0-2-x86_6

Are these packages in the AUR? I can't seem to find them :(

> kvm upstream also includes qemu ours would not.

Err, but kvm comes with a modified qemu. The official qemu package does not make take advantage of the acceleration provided by kvm modules?
I think we need to provide both kvm and kvm-utils packages.

the packages are in testing for x86_64 ONLY as described above.

if you have a look at the TESTING-64 version of qemu, you'll see how it's been done.

> if you have a look at the TESTING-64 version of qemu, you'll see how it's been done.

Ahh... right. I realize now from the PKGBUILD that the qemu sources have been patched with those from kvm.
Awesome :)

Sorry for the bugspam.

will this be implemented for 32-bit version of arch too?

The PKGBUILD is ready for it. Simply comment out the x86_64 switch and try. If I get positive feedback, I'll happily implment the change.

i can't compile qemu because of gcc3. i get the same error as this http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/3701. as answered here http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/3746, error happens because the gcc3 version is 3.3 and not 3.4. i flagged gcc3 package out-of-date.

Did someone has success with compiling qemu with gcc4?
http://mail.busybox.net/downloads/qemu/qemu-gcc-4-all.patch
http://www.kju-app.org/proj/browser/trunk/patches/qemu-0.9.0-gcc4.patch

The kvm api stability is planned for 2.6.22, so I really think kvm should be re-enabled (at least when this kernel is released).

Anyway, I send this message because I've successfully built the kvm-modules package on i686 but needed to change the PKGBUILD:
* To successfully build the kvm-qemu I need to upgrade to gcc 3.4.6 (so i change this in the PKGBUILD)
* The move at the end is only necessary for x86_64

For the qemu version needed to use kvm, I build it in a qemu-kvm package which replace (and provide) the qemu one.

Attached, there are the 3 PKGBUILDs ( gcc3, kvm-modules, kvm-utils)

P.S: i've only touch the x86 part, the x86_64 stay as it was.

Attached a better PKGBUILD for kvm-module (it take into account the _kver variable)

Last one (i hope)

* Do not depends on gcc3, cause it's only needed to build the qemu, not the module.
* Same configure for i686 and x86_64
* Do not call the qemu configure wch seems to make some weirds thinks in /tmp (qemu-noconfigue.patch)

qemu's configure runs compiled tests from /tmp by default, exporting TEMPDIR='./' or some other path takes care of it. I guess you have to have /tmp mounted with noexec like i do to care about this.

qemu 0.9 builds ok with qemu-0.9.0-gcc4.patch, kvm side dies with errors in src/kvm-28/qemu/target-i386/ops_sse.h. the other patch doesn't apply cleanly to either qemu 0.9 or kvm-28.

why do we need to move modules from extra to misc dir? and wouldn't be better to name the package just kvm instead of qemu-kvm?

all PKGBUILDs from Nicolas (Slubman) work fine here on i686. i think qemu-kvm PKGBUILD should have gcc3>=3.4.0 instead of just gcc3 in makedepends.