>From 0ffc2d9d31f481cccb5d6a8a5e17a6d836d0e09c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Pelz Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 11:19:09 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Recommend '-accel kvm' instead of '-enable-kvm' option for QEMU in manual. Suggested by Meiyo Peng . * doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a Virtual Machine): Change it. --- doc/guix.texi | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 65c3b8a7f1..97620eb20c 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -25406,7 +25406,7 @@ vm-image} on x86_64 hardware: @example $ qemu-system-x86_64 \ -net user -net nic,model=virtio \ - -enable-kvm -m 512 \ + -accel kvm -m 512 \ -device virtio-blk,drive=myhd \ -drive if=none,file=/tmp/qemu-image,id=myhd @end example @@ -25429,7 +25429,7 @@ create a NIC, the boot will fail. Assuming your hardware platform is x86_64, you can get a list of available NIC models by running @command{qemu-system-x86_64 -net nic,model=help}. -@item -enable-kvm +@item -accel kvm If your system has hardware virtualization extensions, enabling the virtual machine support (KVM) of the Linux kernel will make things run faster. -- 2.22.0