On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhum3freak@thesandhufamily.ca wrote:

On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 18:06 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote:

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I don't think kvm is available upstream until 5.4.

kvm is available now. Here is the CentOS wiki article for kvm-howto.

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM

Akemi

On 07/30/2009 03:52 AM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:

On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 15:26 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:

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kvm is available now. Here is the CentOS wiki article for kvm-howto.

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM

I noticed that, too. The version in the testing repo is the one I'd be interested in. But, I have a couple of questions:

1. How stable is it?
2. Any idea if moving from this testing version to the eventual official

release in CentOS 5.4 will present any problems? (I suspect not)

unfortunately i don't have write access to the howto, but the packages in the virt dir of the http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/ have the latest stable kvm and qemu packages and all of it dependencies. we use it for and seems to be finally stable: kmod-kvm-2.6.30.1-2.el5 qemu-*-0.10.5-2.el5

On 07/30/2009 02:24 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote:

Farkas Levente wrote:

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unfortunately i don't have write access to the howto,

That can be changed. Just need your wiki account name ...

FirstnameLastname should be used for that ...

lfarkas

On 07/30/2009 06:26 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 09:14 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:

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unfortunately i don't have write access to the howto, but the packages in the virt dir of the http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/ have the latest stable kvm and qemu packages and all of it dependencies. we use it for and seems to be finally stable: kmod-kvm-2.6.30.1-2.el5 qemu-*-0.10.5-2.el5

I don't see a libvirt package. Should I just use the one from the extras repo?

see around (it's there since 06.28): http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/virt/RPMS/libvirt-0.6....

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 18:56 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:

see around (it's there since 06.28): http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/virt/RPMS/libvirt-0.6....

FYI: when I try to install libvirt from your repo, libvirt in the CentOS base and updates repos keep replacing it, even though I've excluded the package. I've tried cleaning the yum cache and a few other trouble shooting steps, all to no avail.

I'll have to install libvirt locally.

Regards,

Ranbir

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 22:40 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:

which version from which repo?

Never mind. I had a typo in the yum config file for the CentOS repos. Instead of "exclude", I had "excude". It took me a while to spot that one.

I fixed the typo. Now all the dependencies are resolving properly.

Regards,

Ranbir

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 07:59 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:

As for the wiki article, I was planning to amend it when 5.4 hits the street. But in the meantime, the content is not "old" because what CentOS offers in extras can be installed by following the instructions in there.

I installed the version in extras. But, I couldn't find the "tunctl" package in the rpmforge repo, and libvirtd wouldn't start (it kept dying).

I don't want to use the testing repo version since the kmod-kvm package is for an older kernel (I'm running 2.6.18-128.1.14).

So, I'll give the version packaged up by Farkas a try.

Regards,

Ranbir

Victor Padro wrote:

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhum3freak@thesandhufamily.ca wrote:

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Hi All,

Is KVM support in CentOS 5.3 complete? That is, can a CentOS 5.3 system host KVM VMs or does CentOS 5.3 only support being virtualized via KVM?

I ask because I installed KVM on a CentOS 5.3 host, but I can't find a kvm module anywhere in /lib/modules/* (let alone the running kernel).

Regards,

Ranbir

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You need to install the module. if it's intel: modprobe kvm-intel if it's amd modprobe kvm-amd

please check the documentation here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM

Please notice that this HowTo is quite old and doesn't reflect at all what will happen with the upcoming kvm packages from 5.4 : i'm currently testing those packages (from RHEL 5.4beta) with the newer libvirt, virt-manager, virt-install on a CentOS 5.3 system and they work ok.

Fabian Arrotin