Allow selection of qemu using --with-qemu

[libguestfs.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 2db1725..b71eaa8 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ LVs, what filesystem is in each LV, etc.).  It can also run commands
 in the context of the guest.  Also you can access filesystems over FTP.
 
 Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C++ management
-programs (or management programs written in OCaml, Perl or Python).
+programs (or management programs written in OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby or Java).
 You can also use it from shell scripts or the command line.
 
 Libguestfs was written by Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@redhat.com).
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ also to build the OCaml bindings
 
 - (Optional) Python if you want to build the python bindings
 
+- (Optional) Ruby, rake if you want to build the ruby bindings
+
+- (Optional) Java, JNI, jpackage-utils if you want to build the java
+bindings
+
 Running ./configure will check you have all the requirements installed
 on your machine.
 
@@ -76,6 +81,18 @@ these commands as root:
   make install
 
 
+Note on using KVM
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+If you are using x86-64, then by default the configure script will
+look for qemu-kvm (KVM support).  You will need a reasonably recent
+processor for this to work.  KVM is much faster than using plain QEMU.
+
+You may also need to enable KVM support for non-root users, by doing:
+
+  chmod o+rw /dev/kvm
+
+
 Notes on cross-architecture support
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