Running windows programs under Linux

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I don't have access to a computer right now but also try apt-cache search kvm

> On Aug 29, 2014, at 3:39, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
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