Running windows programs under Linux

[Tom H]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
> On 08/28/2014 02:51 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> On 08/25/2014 03:59 AM, BONNET, Frank wrote:
>>>
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM
>>
>> Perhaps you might be forgetting something?
>>
>> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation#Pre-installation_checklist>
>>
>> Not all processors support vmx/svm:
>>
>> $ egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
>> 0
>>
>> You're sending an Ubuntu newbie off to kvm without checking to see if
>> his machine will even run kvm...
>
> Been reading this thread for a while. My distro doesn't provide
> KVM. Is there a source of this in rpm format? And where would
> I find a list of processors that can use it?

AFAIK, there's no longer a kvm package in Ubuntu, except for a
transitional qemu-kvm one.

# dpkg -l | grep qemu
ii  ipxe-qemu
1.0.0+git-20131111.c3d1e78-2ubuntu1                 all          PXE
boot firmware - ROM images for qemu
ii  qemu-keymaps
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2                               all          QEMU
keyboard maps
ii  qemu-system-common
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2                               amd64        QEMU
full system emulation binaries (common files)
ii  qemu-system-x86
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2                               amd64        QEMU
full system emulation binaries (x86)
ii  qemu-utils
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2                               amd64        QEMU
utilities

# dpkg -l | grep kvm

You can use qemu without the acceleration that the egrep above
searches for. If you don't have or use hardware acceleration, qemu
uses slow user-space acceleration (tcg?).

I run "qemu-system-x86_64 ... -enable-kvm ..." on my systems to ensure
that kvm is used.