Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around Qemu to test kernels

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/24/2011 08:40 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> >  +
> >  +       # Qemu's own build system calls it qemu-system-x86_64
> >  +       [ "$QEMU_BIN" ] || QEMU_BIN=$(which qemu-system-x86_64 2>/dev/null)
>
> If you run qemu-system-x86_64 on an i386 host, will it use kvm at all?

I think it will, and that's actually a bug, since kvm doesn't support 
virtualizing long mode on a 32-bit host.


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