It might not exist on all platforms and according to the man page:
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.
Closesstrongswan/strongswan#385.
This should give us the best performance and feature set on modern
hardware (in particular when compared to code2duo, which e.g. does not allow
nested virtualization).
Closesstrongswan/strongswan#340.
It's ever so close with strongTNC, sometimes the OOM killer got triggered
and the tests failed, or even worse, the whole guest system got stuck.
This might just be enough for now.
Newer versions of systemd etc. seem to require quite a lot of entropy
from /dev/random while booting, which can block and therefore delay the
start of other services (in particular sshd) by more than a minute.
Using the host's /dev/urandom via VirtIO RNG, we can avoid blocking the
guests.
The required kernel options are added for kernel versions 5.4+.
This avoids having to copy testresults, makes results of cancelled runs
browsable (runs may actually be followed live) and preserves old results
when rebuilding guest images (e.g. when using the build-strongswan script).
The number of consecutive test runs without any intermittent rebuild of the
guest images is also not limited by the image size anymore.
This allows accessing the guests with `virsh console <name>`.
Using a serial console would also be possible but our kernel configs
have no serial drivers enabled, CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE is enabled though.
So to avoid having to recompile the kernels let's do it this way, only
requires rebuilding the guest images.
References #729.
The most significant change is that CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT is now
finally removed (after being deprecated for a long time).
So to successfully shutdown the guests via ACPI the CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV
option is now enabled.
This simplifies capturing traffic with Wireshark on the host as each of
the guest's interfaces is clearly identified.
The three bridges were previously numbered starting from 0, this scheme
is restored here.
Andreas Steffen