hi, after a long time it seems the current packages which needed for kvm on centos-5 host seems to working (ie. worth to change). my repo: http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/SRPMS/ contains the current set of rpms what we use (about a week): ----------------------------- libvirt-0.6.0-1 python-virtinst-0.400.1-1 virt-manager-0.6.1-1 virt-top-1.0.1-7.el5 virt-viewer-0.0.3-3 qemu-img-0.9.1-12 kvm-83-1 kmod-kvm-83-1 etherboot-5.4.4-8 ----------------------------- you can download x86_64 binary rpms too. these are mostly the fedora src.rpms rebuild on el5 with small modifications. imho it'd be useful to add centos's extras repo too, since these are a huge step even for the current rhel-5.3's rpms and the current kvm-36 which is in extras. these are usable on centos-5.2, so can be added to it's extras repo, but there will be some patches in the coming centos-5.3's kernel-2.6.18-128.el5 (eg. virtio) which has some more benefit too. any comments? how are willing to add it to centos? yours.
Hi Farkas,
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Farkas Levente lfarkas@lfarkas.org wrote:
after a long time it seems the current packages which needed for kvm on centos-5 host seems to working (ie. worth to change). my repo: http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/SRPMS/ contains the current set of rpms what we use (about a week):
On how many machines / hardware configurations have you tested this KVM version? Since there does not seem to be much movement here upstream, I think it would be useful to test a new batch of KVM packages.
Of course, any packages that upgrade CentOS packages can only potentially be in CentOS-plus.
Take care, Daniel
Daniel de Kok wrote:
Hi Farkas,
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Farkas Levente lfarkas@lfarkas.org wrote:
after a long time it seems the current packages which needed for kvm on centos-5 host seems to working (ie. worth to change). my repo: http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/SRPMS/ contains the current set of rpms what we use (about a week):
On how many machines / hardware configurations have you tested this KVM version? Since there does not seem to be much movement here upstream, I think it would be useful to test a new batch of KVM packages.
we only test with intel hosts and a dozens of guests, but this is the first series which seems to stable and really usable (ie. better then 36).
Of course, any packages that upgrade CentOS packages can only potentially be in CentOS-plus.
of course on the other hand there are virtio changes in libvirt and virt-manager so it'd better to wait 5.2's kernel which has virtio updates.
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Daniel de Kok -
Farkas Levente