.TH kvm 1 2013-11 "1.7" Debian .SH NAME kvm \- kvm-enabling wrapper for qemu-system-x86_64 .SH DESCRIPTION The .B kvm wrapper script is used to provide compatibility with old qemu\-kvm package which has been merged into qemu as of version 1.3. .P The script executes .RS .B qemu\-system\-x86_64 \-enable\-kvm .RE 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 .RS .B qemu\-system\-x86_64 \-machine accel=kvm:tcg .RE 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. .SH SEE ALSO .BR qemu-system (1). .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by Michael Tokarev .