Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm binary is deprecated

[Alexander Binun]

Hello Stefan,
   The qemu used by me is the one installed using apt-get install qemu. The 
executable is in /usr/bin. The KVM driver is the one supplied with Ubuntu 13.04.

The version of qemu is 1.4.0 (after running qemu --version I get the message

  --- QEMU emulator version 1.4.0 (Debian 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4), Copyright 
(c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

You mean I should use the build-from-sources qemu (getting the sources from 
git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git) ? Should I then compile from sources and 
mount the KVM ?

Regards, 
   Alex



> > When we try to create a VM the following error message appears:
> >      --- kvm binary is deprecated, please use qemu-system-x86_64 instead
> > 
> > The same message appears when I try to run kvm --version.
> > 
> > Question: how must be upgrade/degrade KVM oro Qemu in order to make them 
> > collaborate properly ?
> 
> It sounds like you may be building the old qemu-kvm.git source code.
> Last year qemu-kvm.git was merged back into qemu.git.
> 
> It means you should use git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git if you are
> building from source.
> 
> Some distros are creating transitional packages or wrapper scripts that
> build QEMU (qemu-system-x86_64) and provide a /usr/bin/kvm or qemu-kvm
> executable.
> 
> More info:
> http://blog.vmsplice.net/2012/12/qemu-kvmgit-has-unforked-back-into.html
> 
> Stefan
>