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@tls.msk.ru>.