Running windows programs under Linux
Tom H
tomh0665 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 31 13:42:44 UTC 2014
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
> On 08/29/2014 12:13 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:54 AM, <nilesrogoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Aug 29, 2014, at 3:39, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> I don't have access to a computer right now but also try apt-cache search
>>> kvm
>>
>> Please bottom-post.
>>
>> As I said above, there's a transitional qemu-kvm package that
>> apt-cache would find.
>>
>> The point was, and I mis-expressed myself, that I'm running kvm
>> without having a package named "*kvm*" installed.
>>
> Maybe I missed something. How do you run a program if you don't have that
> program?
It's a kernel module. As I said in another email, qemu now includes
the features of qemu-kvm so it uses this module.
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