[CentOS-devel] KVM-66 packages in testing

Sun Apr 20 12:33:20 UTC 2008
Daniel de Kok <daniel at centos.org>

Hi all,

We have just added KVM-66 packages to the CentOS 5 testing repository.
This version of the Kernel Virtual Machine has numerous improvements
over KVM-36, which is currently in CentOS-Extras. One of the notable
new features is support for paravirtualized block and network devices
through the virtio architecture[1]. Currently, only Linux kernel
2.6.25 provides paravirtualized block and NIC  drivers. A
paravirtualized NIC driver is available for Windows[2].

We'd like to hear from current KVM users whether this version has any
regressions for their applications compared to KVM-36. Of course, we
are interested in other bug reports as well!

Information on using the CentOS Testing repository can be found on the
CentOS Wiki at:

http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories

The KVM module package is named 'kmod-kvm', and has a dependency on
the userland KVM tool. So, the following command should do the trick,
and pull in all required dependencies:

yum --enablerepo=c5-testing install kmod-kvm

Thanks,
Daniel

[1] http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Virtio?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=virtio&titlesearch=Titles
[2] http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180599&package_id=267943