kvm(1)                                        Debian                                       kvm(1)



NAME
       kvm - kvm-enabling wrapper for qemu-system-x86_64

DESCRIPTION
       The  kvm  wrapper  script is used to provide compatibility with old qemu-kvm package which
       has been merged into qemu as of version 1.3.

       The script executes
              qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm
       passing all other command-line arguments to the qemu binary.  This is not the same as  old
       kvm binary, which was using less strict construct, similar to
              qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm:tcg
       New  wrapper  ensures  that  kvm mode is enabled, or the VM will not start, while old code
       falled back to emulation (tcg) mode if kvm isn't available.

SEE ALSO
       qemu-system(1).

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Michael Tokarev <mjt AT tls.ru>.



1.7                                          2013-11                                       kvm(1)