Re: [Qemu-devel] Running KVM inside pure Qemu?

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 25/04/2014 20:13, Shehbaz Jaffer ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> Are you talking about running KVM(hardware virtualization) enabled
> support on top of a Linux host running on only QEMU (software
> virtualization)? I doubt if this is nesting is possible. To be sure,
> you can check for the following flags on your host:
> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -e svm -e vmx

You can run AMD KVM inside QEMU.  The default CPU model "qemu64" 
provides this capability.

Paolo

> If even one of the two flags is enabled on the host, you can use the
> KVM on top of Host running on QEMU using --enable-kvm option.
>
> Otherwise you will get errors like : kvm-disbled while trying to run
> KVM on top of host running on QEMU.