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| author | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2013-04-17 00:25:31 -0500 |
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| committer | Niels Horn <niels.horn@slackbuilds.org> | 2013-04-28 12:23:20 -0300 |
| commit | 7cb823a3fa4ac5fafb8ec1a32deae94ea08d6303 (patch) | |
| tree | ff45d7c3b18c1a21bf9ade51c1940d063a0482f2 /system/kvm-kmod | |
| parent | 2ec9de67472e6802845998edccc222f81ca04cd2 (diff) | |
system/kvm-kmod: Clean up leftover verbiage wrt qemu-kvm
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'system/kvm-kmod')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/kvm-kmod/README | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | system/kvm-kmod/slack-desc | 10 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/system/kvm-kmod/README b/system/kvm-kmod/README index 83a8145364193..0448c08d8eb2f 100644 --- a/system/kvm-kmod/README +++ b/system/kvm-kmod/README @@ -1,18 +1,19 @@ -KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution +kvm (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions -(Intel VT or AMD-V). KVM is divided into the KVM-KMOD package -(kernel modules) and the QEMU-KVM package (slightly modified QEMU) -which are both available as separate Slackbuilds. +(Intel VT or AMD-V). kvm is divided into the kvm-kmod package +(kernel modules) and the qemu package which are both available as +separate Slackbuilds. -KVM-KMOD consists of a kernel module, 'kvm.ko', that provides the +kvm-kmod consists of a kernel module, 'kvm.ko', that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, 'kvm-intel.ko' or 'kvm-amd.ko'. Slackware provides these modules in the 'a/kernel-modules*' packages. In most cases, the provided -versions are sufficient to run QEMU-KVM. KVM-KMOD is only needed -if you want to change the KVM modules to a different version. +versions are sufficient to run qemu with kvm support. This kvm-kmod +package is only needed if you want to change the kvm modules to a +different version. -KVM-KMOD updates the modules without overwriting the ones provided -by Slackware. If you uninstall KVM-KMOD, you will need to run +kvm-kmod updates the modules without overwriting the ones provided +by Slackware. If you uninstall kvm-kmod, you will need to run 'depmod -a' to regenerate the modules.dep and map files to regain access to the Slackware provided versions. diff --git a/system/kvm-kmod/slack-desc b/system/kvm-kmod/slack-desc index dcaf1dd8d1915..c6d2c3def6d08 100644 --- a/system/kvm-kmod/slack-desc +++ b/system/kvm-kmod/slack-desc @@ -6,14 +6,14 @@ # leave one space after the ':'. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| -kvm-kmod: kvm-kmod (KVM kernel modules only) +kvm-kmod: kvm-kmod (kvm kernel modules only) kvm-kmod: -kvm-kmod: KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution +kvm-kmod: kvm (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution kvm-kmod: for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions kvm-kmod: (Intel VT or AMD-V). kvm-kmod: -kvm-kmod: KVM is divided into the KVM-KMOD package (kernel modules) and the -kvm-kmod: QEMU-KVM package (slightly modified QEMU) which are both available -kvm-kmod: as separate Slackbuilds. +kvm-kmod: kvm is divided into the kvm-kmod package (kernel modules) and the +kvm-kmod: qemu package which are both available as separate Slackbuilds. +kvm-kmod: kvm-kmod: kvm-kmod: |