Phil Schaffner wrote:http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/ are from Farkas Levente, who frequents this list, perhaps he would like consider offering them for inclusion in CentOS repos?that would be quit cool. however, isnt there a problem with what runs on what ver of KVM ? in that centos-5 does not run beyond a certain release, whereas windows needs something else and opensolaris needs something completely different. or have those issues been resolved now ? ...
Farkas's version is KVM-84, which is the latest, and I have that running here on a clean install of CentOS 5.2 with one W2008 guest. Call it anecdotal evidence. As for what will run on that version: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2009-February/000876.html "we only test with intel hosts and a dozens of guests, but this is the first series which seems to stable and really usable" However, if that version goes into a repository and existing production installations do an update then they may get a KVM version that doesn't work for them. Or maybe it works but only after a config change. Is that the issue? Maybe it should go in the testing repository then. - Julian