Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Daniel de Kok <daniel at centos.org> wrote: >> 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 > > Just wanted to let you know that a wiki article on HowTo install/use > KVM is also available as a draft: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM are you plan to update virt-manager, libvirt, python-virtinst and gtk-vnc? most of them can be simple rebuild from fedora's development or can be found in my repo http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"