# Where did qemu-kvm go ? (or did it?)

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-did-qemu-kvm-go-or-did-it/5179>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [January 24, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-did-qemu-kvm-go-or-did-it/5179 "2022-01-24T01:50:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![bobar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b77776/32.png) [@bobar](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/bobar)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-did-qemu-kvm-go-or-did-it/5179/1 "2022-01-24T01:50:23Z")

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There used to be an executable called `qemu-system-x86_64` but apparently that was replaced with  
`qemu-kvm` but that doesn’t seem to be on my RL 8.5 system despite having the qemu-kvm packages installed.

The man pages for qemu-kvm which are present and titled  
“qemu−doc − QEMU version 4.2.0 User Documentation” refer to  
**qemu-kvm** [_options_] [_disk\_image_]

Anyone know where qemu-kvm should be / if it has been superceeded ?

I used to be able to run  
`sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /dev/sd[a-z]`  
to launch a vm and I’m trying to get the current version of that.

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**Author:** ![label](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@label](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/label)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 5:42am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-did-qemu-kvm-go-or-did-it/5179/2 "2022-01-24T05:42:48Z")

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Some binaries were moved to `/usr/libexec`. See: `/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm`

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**Author:** ![bobar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b77776/32.png) [@bobar](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/bobar)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-did-qemu-kvm-go-or-did-it/5179/3 "2022-01-24T15:53:46Z")

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Thanks, that’s where it was.

I can now use  
`[root@localhost libexec]# ./qemu-kvm -drive file=/dev/sde,format=raw,media=disk -smp 2 -m 4096`  
instead of  
`qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /dev/sde`

…the price of progress.

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**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/where-did-qemu-kvm-go-or-did-it/5179/4 "2023-08-25T03:56:45Z")

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