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Install this package:

emerge -a app-emulation/kvmtool

If the package is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:

autounmask app-emulation/kvmtool

Or alternatively:

emerge --autounmask-write -a app-emulation/kvmtool

Package Information

Description:

kvmtool is a lightweight tool for hosting KVM guests. As a pure virtualization tool it only supports guests using the same architecture, though it supports running 32-bit guests on those 64-bit architectures that allow this. From the original announcement email: ------------------------------------------------------- The goal of this tool is to provide a clean, from-scratch, lightweight KVM host tool implementation that can boot Linux guest images (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like QEMU) with no BIOS dependencies and with only the minimal amount of legacy device emulation. It's great as a learning tool if you want to get your feet wet in virtualization land: it's only 5 KLOC of clean C code that can already boot a guest Linux image. Right now it can boot a Linux image and provide you output via a serial console, over the host terminal, i.e. you can use it to boot a guest Linux image in a terminal or over ssh and log into the guest without much guest or host side setup work needed.

Homepage:

https://github.com/kvmtool/kvmtool

License:

GPL-2

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Metadata

Description

• kvmtool is a lightweight tool for hosting KVM guests. As a pure virtualization tool it only supports guests using the same architecture, though it supports running 32-bit guests on those 64-bit architectures that allow this. From the original announcement email: ------------------------------------------------------- The goal of this tool is to provide a clean, from-scratch, lightweight KVM host tool implementation that can boot Linux guest images (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like QEMU) with no BIOS dependencies and with only the minimal amount of legacy device emulation. It's great as a learning tool if you want to get your feet wet in virtualization land: it's only 5 KLOC of clean C code that can already boot a guest Linux image. Right now it can boot a Linux image and provide you output via a serial console, over the host terminal, i.e. you can use it to boot a guest Linux image in a terminal or over ssh and log into the guest without much guest or host side setup work needed.

Maintainers

• Dan Molik (dan@d3fy.net) - Type: person

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>dan@d3fy.net</email>
		<name>Dan Molik</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription lang="en">
		kvmtool is a lightweight tool for hosting KVM guests. As a pure virtualization
		tool it only supports guests using the same architecture, though it supports
		running 32-bit guests on those 64-bit architectures that allow this.

		From the original announcement email:
		-------------------------------------------------------
		The goal of this tool is to provide a clean, from-scratch, lightweight
		KVM host tool implementation that can boot Linux guest images (just a
		hobby, won't be big and professional like QEMU) with no BIOS
		dependencies and with only the minimal amount of legacy device
		emulation.

		It's great as a learning tool if you want to get your feet wet in
		virtualization land: it's only 5 KLOC of clean C code that can already
		boot a guest Linux image.

		Right now it can boot a Linux image and provide you output via a serial
		console, over the host terminal, i.e. you can use it to boot a guest
		Linux image in a terminal or over ssh and log into the guest without
		much guest or host side setup work needed.
	</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild kvmtool-9999
• [Error] Missing or unparsable Manifest file