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virtio GPUs with Qemu ?
by lejeczek 21 Jan '26

21 Jan '26

Hi guys. Can you tell when Centos will include 3D hardware virtio with Qemu/KVM - is there a schedule for this even if a loose one? It would be great to have it, especially with more "modern" kernels being available from SIGs/third-parties or even current ones. Perhaps there is software stack capable of this already which some group/repo makes available somewhere? many thanks, L.

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Fwd: [PROPOSAL] Creating the NVIDIA Enablement SIG - Accelerating NVIDIA Upstream Integration
by Amy Marrich 16 Jan '26

16 Jan '26

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Amnon Ilan <ailan(a)redhat.com> Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM Subject: [PROPOSAL] Creating the NVIDIA Enablement SIG - Accelerating NVIDIA Upstream Integration To: <devel(a)lists.centos.org> Cc: Amy Marrich <amarrich(a)redhat.com>, Neo Jia <cjia(a)nvidia.com>, < newtonl(a)nvidia.com> Hello everyone, I would like to propose the creation of a new Special Interest Group: the NVIDIA Enablement SIG. Purpose The NVIDIA Enablement SIG will integrate these "in-flight" upstream patches from NVIDIA into a specialized variant of CentOS Stream, allowing the community to test and utilize next-generation hardware capabilities today. Scope The initial work of the SIG will focus on the foundational layers of the stack required for modern compute and graphics hardware: - Linux Kernel: Integrating and testing patches submitted by NVIDIA to the kernel community that improve hardware support and system integration. - Virtualization (QEMU & libvirt): Implementing upcoming changes that enhance how virtual machines interact with hardware accelerators and modern GPU architectures. - Continuous Alignment: Ensuring these patches maintain parallel compatibility with the core CentOS Stream codebase as they evolve during the upstream review process. Deliverables - SIG Repositories: builds of the kernel, qemu-kvm, and libvirt containing the latest upstream-bound patches. - Enablement Packages: A centos-release-nvidia-enablement package to provide users with an easy path to opt-in to these experimental stacks. - Future work: - Expanded package set as appropriate - Install media / images Initial Members - Amnon Ilan - (Proposed Chair) - Amy Marrich - (Board Sponsor) - Neo Gia - Newton Liu - [Member Name] (We invite anyone interested in the future of open-source hardware enablement to join us.) Resources Requested - Wiki: sigs.centos.org/nvidia-enablement - CBS Access: Build tags and targets for CentOS Stream 10. We look forward to hearing the community's thoughts on this proposal. Best regards, Amnon Ilan

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Discussion: Thoughts of new sig - CentOS Rollup
by Troy Dawson 15 Jan '26

15 Jan '26

This is my last call to see if anyone wants to be part of a CentOS Rollup SIG. The SIG would rollup all of the "stuff" (images, repos, packages, documentation, etc...) from all the CentOS SIGs, along with the the corresponding CentOS Stream and EPEL releases, once a quarter. We could put all of that in AWS space, and leave it there for a period of time. Some people brought it up last year, but when I went to start the SIG, nobody said anything. If nobody wants to have or participate in this SIG, I'm totally fine dropping it. Troy

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2026-01-14 CentOS Public Board Meeting
by Amy Marrich 12 Jan '26

12 Jan '26

Our next board meeting will take place at 20:00 UTC on Wednesday: `date -d "2026-01-14 20:00 UTC"` If you would like to attend please send me an email to amy(a)redhat.com ( please do not reply to @centos-devel or use another email address) and you will receive a link to a meeting room with a passcode, 1 hour before the meeting takes place. The agenda can be checked at (work in progress) : https://hackmd.io/pKcqSSxCQaGaKhQN_qg72Q As a reminder we will enforce few rules : * Wait to be recognized by the Chair before speaking * Respect the Chair when told your time to speak is over - this will allow us to remain on agenda, and complete the meetings in the allotted time * In the event that there are Board-confidential topics, these will be put at the end of the meeting, in Executive Session, and guests will be asked to leave. We hope to minimize these items, but they do sometimes happen. The most common scenarios in which this may happen are personnel issues, or information that Red Hat wishes to share with the Board, but is not yet public. * Muting of participants, or, in extreme situations, ejection from the meeting, is at the sole discretion of the Chair. * Meetings will be recorded, and published to YouTube (possibly with edits/redaction, as approved by the Directors). Thus, by joining the meeting you consent to have your presence at the meeting, and anything you say during the meeting, made public. I hope some of you can join. thanks, *Amy Marrich* She/Her/Hers Principal Technical Marketing Manager - Cloud Platforms Red Hat, Inc <https://www.redhat.com/> amy(a)redhat.com Mobile: 954-818-0514 Slack: amarrich IRC: spotz

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December 2025 News
by Shaun McCance 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

Hi all, The December newsletter is now available. https://blog.centos.org/2025/12/december-2025-news/ We have updates from the Kmods SIG, Virt SIG, and Artwork SIG, as well as information on upcoming events. Thanks, Shaun

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December Board Meeting Recap
by Shaun McCance 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

The recording of the December CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording: https://youtu.be/-opPRAwBHNY Read the minutes: https://gitlab.com/CentOS/Board/tracker/-/blob/master/meetings/2025/2025-12… See this post on the blog: https://blog.centos.org/2025/12/centos-board-meeting-recap-december-2025/ The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: * AI policy, particularly in light of Fedora's recent policy approval. * Status of the SIG rollup, a quarterly snapshot of CentOS Stream and SIG content. * Having a SIG Council kickoff at CentOS Connect. * Events, including CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and Flock. -- Shaun

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Discussion: Thoughts of new sig - CentOS Rollup
by Troy Dawson 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

I have heard several times from different people and SIGs that they would like a Rollup (Snapshot) of their SIG's stuff, along with the corresponding CentOS Stream and EPEL release. So, I'd like to start a discussion about the possibility of creating a SIG that would rollup all of the "stuff" (images, repos, packages, documentation, etc...) from all the CentOS SIGs, along with the the corresponding CentOS Stream and EPEL releases, once a quarter. We could put all of that in AWS space, and leave it there for a period of time. Some people I talked to said a year, some said for the remainder of the corresponding Stream life. There are several details that would need to be worked out, but I'm sending this email out to start the discussion about the feasibility and desire for such a SIG. Troy

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2025-12-10 CentOS Public Board Meeting
by Amy Marrich 07 Dec '25

07 Dec '25

Our next board meeting will take place at 20:00 UTC on Wednesday: `date -d "2025-12-10 20:00 UTC"` If you would like to attend please send me an email to amy(a)redhat.com ( please do not reply to @centos-devel or use another email address) and you will receive a link to a meeting room with a passcode, 1 hour before the meeting takes place. The agenda can be checked at (work in progress) : https://hackmd.io/wPPuRhU-Ro-eupdiJWNvzg As a reminder we will enforce few rules : * Wait to be recognized by the Chair before speaking * Respect the Chair when told your time to speak is over - this will allow us to remain on agenda, and complete the meetings in the allotted time * In the event that there are Board-confidential topics, these will be put at the end of the meeting, in Executive Session, and guests will be asked to leave. We hope to minimize these items, but they do sometimes happen. The most common scenarios in which this may happen are personnel issues, or information that Red Hat wishes to share with the Board, but is not yet public. * Muting of participants, or, in extreme situations, ejection from the meeting, is at the sole discretion of the Chair. * Meetings will be recorded, and published to YouTube (possibly with edits/redaction, as approved by the Directors). Thus, by joining the meeting you consent to have your presence at the meeting, and anything you say during the meeting, made public. I hope some of you can join. thanks, *Amy Marrich* She/Her/Hers Principal Technical Marketing Manager - Cloud Platforms Red Hat, Inc <https://www.redhat.com/> amy(a)redhat.com Mobile: 954-818-0514 Slack: amarrich IRC: spotz

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CentOS Connect CFP closes December 16
by Shaun McCance 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Hi everybody, This is your reminder that the CentOS Connect CFP is open until December 16. Why wait? Get your submission in now and check that item off your todo list. https://www.centos.org/events/connect/ We prefer short, 25-minute talks to keep things moving, but we do have room for a few 40-minute talks for technical deep dives. We like to hear about what's happening across the entire EL ecosystem, but please make sure your talk touches on CentOS. As a reminder, please register if you are attending. CentOS Connect is free to attend, but your registration helps us a lot in making sure we have enough food and swag for everybody. Unregistered attendees don't get the big swag item until after lunch on day 2, to ensure that all registered attendees have a chance to get their size. Thanks, Shaun

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[Infra] - Planned outage : cbs.centos.org (Nov 18th)
by Fabian Arrotin 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

Due to a (announced now) DC move, we'll have to migrate the existing CentOS CBS Koji build infrastructure (https://cbs.centos.org) to new DC and so new hosts Migration is scheduled for """"Tuesday November 18th, 8:00 am UTC time"""". You can convert to local time with $(date -d '2025-11-18 08:00 UTC') We don't have a full estimate about the needed time but we'll proceed like this : - disable all builders on actual CBS infra - wait for some remaining build tasks to finish (ideally you'd stop in advance for that day any automated workflow to not submit builds) - shutdown cbs kojihub in rdu2 - backup/import latest postgresql into new cbs kojihub in rdu3 - synchronize last time kojishare volume from rdu2 => rdu3 (last time it took ~70min) - verify service can start (still all kojid builders disabled) - reconfigure hub to add new aws/rdu3 build hosts - test a simple createrepo (koji regen-repo) task to ensure kojid machines can reach hub and nfs - test a new scratch build from git to test git + lookaside workflow - validate new signing host get notifications on message bus - opening up hub for new requests - builds should proceed as usual Worth knowing that we'll switch the base profile for the all the builders to match a 4:1 ratio (so 4GB RAM / core) and so on-prem (rdu3) and remote aws builders will all (as starting point) be 16 cores/64GB ram. The s390x builder will remain the same (as itself already remote and so not migrating, just attaching remotely to new hub) The biggest change will be for ppc64le architecture, as we'll be switching from IBM Power 9 to Power 10, but these new builders will also us the same 16cores/64GB ram profile Also worth knowing that it's the first (but biggest !) part of the migration. We expect all to work for the SIGs workflow, but some actual machines in RDU2 will then be physically migrated (second week of December, based on actual planning) and then be reinstalled/reconfigured by ansible and so also added to CBS pool and/or other CI needs (like adding back ppc64le as option for duffy.ci.centos.org consumers) The other (tested) infra change we'll use is a caching server that will speed up access to external repositories (like dl.fedoraproject.org for epel and kojihub.stream.centos.org for centos-buildroots for SIGs that opted in for that option, instead of just building against available and release content set on mirror.stream.centos.org) I'm working on preparing all that is needed but all the infra is deployed, and just need to be configured with Ansible and then we'll just orchestrate the main switch. We'll keep you informed about any change or status update on that day. Thanks for your understanding and patience. -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org]

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