slackbuilds_ponce/system/qemu
Robby Workman 3d694c99b3 system/qemu: Optionally use device-tree-compiler if installed
This also adds --enable-sdl, which is potentially needed for
some emulated ARM graphics chipsets.

Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
2013-11-29 13:55:39 -06:00
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65-kvm.rules
qemu.info
qemu.SlackBuild system/qemu: Optionally use device-tree-compiler if installed 2013-11-29 13:55:39 -06:00
README system/qemu: Optionally use device-tree-compiler if installed 2013-11-29 13:55:39 -06:00
slack-desc various: Fix slack-desc formatting and comment nit picks. 2013-11-22 02:29:22 -05:00

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for 
one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). 
By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performances.

qemu (with kvm enabled) achieves near native performances by leveraging 
the kvm-kmod modules and executing the guest code directly on the host 
CPU.  Slackware provides pre-built 32/64 bit x86 kvm-kmod modules or you 
can build different versions with the kvm-kmod package.

By default, this script builds only the x86 and arm emulation targets
for qemu; if you prefer to build all supported targets, do this:

  TARGETS=all ./qemu.SlackBuild

We patch the installed udev rules to require membership in "users" 
group instead of a custom "kvm" group to uses /dev/kvm.  If you prefer
something different, then run the build script like this:
  
  KVMGROUP=group ./qemu.SlackBuild

Don't forget to load the 'kvm-intel' or 'kvm-amd' module (depending on 
your processor) prior to launching qemu-system-ARCH with kvm enabled.
For older/unmaintained qemu frontends, this build also creates a symlink
to qemu-system-ARCH at /usr/bin/qemu-kvm.

spice, usbredir, and device-tree-compiler are optional dependencies.
If you wish to emulate ARM, you will want device-tree-compiler.