Is there a way to use kvm-amd on centos 5.1?
I dont want to mess with XEN. I want the hardware virtualization that is on my AMD chip.
I played with putting 2.6.24 and centos 5.1 on my AMD laptop, got kvm-amd and that works. However I want to put this on my desktop that is running 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5. Is there a way or do I just wave to use 2.6.24 or 25.
Thanks,
Jerry
Jerry Geis wrote:
Is there a way to use kvm-amd on centos 5.1?
I dont want to mess with XEN. I want the hardware virtualization that is on my AMD chip.
what effort did you make to research this first ? What did you try ? What specific problems did you run into ?
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
Is there a way to use kvm-amd on centos 5.1?
I dont want to mess with XEN. I want the hardware virtualization that is on my AMD chip.
I played with putting 2.6.24 and centos 5.1 on my AMD laptop, got kvm-amd and that works. However I want to put this on my desktop that is running 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5. Is there a way or do I just wave to use 2.6.24 or 25.
First, this may be best discussed in the CentOS-Virt mailing list.
If you are willing to *test* it, the kvm rpm is available for CentOS 5 in the testing repo (testers are always welcome). :-) Install kvm and kmod-kvm from testing. The only "problem" is that the kmod -kvm is not up-to-date. It is for kernel 2.6.18-8.1.14. I suppose Daniel can build it for the current kernel which you have.
Akemi
Akemi
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
I want to put this on my desktop that is running 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5. Is there a way or do I just wave to use 2.6.24 or 25.
yum install kmod-kvm
should do the trick, because KVM is in extras. I am currently working on KVM-66 packages as well, that will be pushed to testing if they work ok.
Take care, Daniel
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Daniel de Kok me@danieldk.org wrote:
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
I want to put this on my desktop that is running 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5. Is there a way or do I just wave to use 2.6.24 or 25.
yum install kmod-kvm
should do the trick, because KVM is in extras. I am currently working on KVM-66 packages as well, that will be pushed to testing if they work ok.
Take care, Daniel
Just wanted to update on this. KVM-66 is available in the testing repository. There is now a wiki article (draft) for those who are wishing to install KVM on CentOS-5 (thanks to Scott Roberts for writing this up).
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM
Akemi
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:33:53 +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote:
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
I want to put this on my desktop that is running 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5. Is there a way or do I just wave to use 2.6.24 or 25.
yum install kmod-kvm
should do the trick, because KVM is in extras. I am currently working on KVM-66 packages as well, that will be pushed to testing if they work ok.
Take care, Daniel
Jerry,
Wondering if you had a chance to give kvm a try. If so, could you report back with what you've found?
Thanks, Akemi
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