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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/qemu.scm | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/qemu.scm b/gnu/packages/qemu.scm index e22ffd2fb6..b79da989a6 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/qemu.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/qemu.scm @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ (define-module (gnu packages qemu) #:use-module (guix download) #:use-module (guix packages) - #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:renamer (symbol-prefix-proc 'license:)) + #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:select (gpl2)) #:use-module (guix build-system gnu) #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config) #:use-module (gnu packages glib) @@ -76,6 +76,14 @@ ("attr" ,attr))) (home-page "http://www.linux-kvm.org/") (synopsis - "A full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions") - (description #f) - (license #f))) + "Virtualization for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions") + (description + "KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution +for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or +AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the +core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, +kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko. KVM also requires a modified QEMU although work is +underway to get the required changes upstream.") + + ;; Many files are GPLv2+, but some are GPLv2-only---e.g., `memory.c'. + (license gpl2))) |