[CentOS-devel] Is advanced-virt (Virtualization SIG) not relevant anymore with latest CentOS Stream 8?

Tue Nov 16 13:11:18 UTC 2021
Igor Raits <igor.raits at gmail.com>

Hi Danilo,

Thanks for the very quick response! And thanks Sandro for including
relevant people (as it was hard for me to find appropriate emails).

Have a great day,

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 2:04 PM Danilo de Paula <ddepaula at redhat.com> wrote:

> Yes, until RHEL 8.5 the latest-and-greatest virt packages used to be
> shipped within Advanced Virtualization. But since AV packages are part of
> RHEL now, there's no need for updating the SIG anymore because RHEL has the
> most updated packages and, by consequence, c8s should have those builds too.
>
>
>
> On Tue., Nov. 16, 2021, 7:25 a.m. Sandro Bonazzola, <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> +Eduardo Lima <etrunko at redhat.com> +Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula
>> <ddepaula at redhat.com>
>>
>> Il giorno mar 16 nov 2021 alle ore 12:52 Igor Raits <igor.raits at gmail.com>
>> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've noticed that the latest c8s repos ship libvirt/qemu-kvm (and other
>>> related things) newer than the advanced virtualization repository… which
>>> brings me to a question if it is still worth using those builds or not?
>>>
>>> I've been trying to dig into some mailing list conversations (which are
>>> pretty much non-existent at this point) and IRC meetings (which I did not
>>> see in October, but found one in November[1]). Found only mention that
>>> libvirt/qemu will not be available for power arches since c9s and that's
>>> what probably virt sig will build (if my understanding of meeting minutes
>>> are correct).
>>>
>>> Any piece of information would be very helpful :)
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://www.centos.org/minutes/2021/November/centos-meeting.2021-11-03-17.03.log.html
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
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>>
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