[CentOS-virt] maintenance of kvm and qemu in extras

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Michael Schenck <limeschenck at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see that kvm has been updated since Sept. 08 2007, and qemu hasn't since
> Sept. 12 2007.
>
> I understand that redhat is migrating from xen to kvm, I'm curious if that
> has provoked this reduced maintenance or if interest was just lost.
>
> If this is of interest to others, Qemu 0.9.1 does provide a lot more
> features lacking in 0.9.0 that I would like to use, including virtio and
> e1000 NIC models, which provide better performance, as well as netbooting
> virtuals.
>
> I'm curious to hear everyones thoughts on this.

Daniel de Kok has been busy with real life but I'm sure he is still
interested in pushing kvm forward.  He has provided qemu 0.9.1 here:

http://people.centos.org/daniel/packages/qemu/

Akemi