Comment 2 for bug 228299

It seems this isn't a bug, but an error on my behalf; I read the documentation on most homepages and guides for creating new virtual machines using virt-install implies that the --accelerate flag requires KVM to work - but reading the man-page, it enables *any* acceleration it may find, being KVM, KQEMU or none at all. If you leave it out, it explicitly forces the virtual machine not to use any acceleration at all (i.e. setting the '-no-kqemu' argument).