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

[Farkas Levente]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Farkas Levente wrote:
>> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> Farkas Levente wrote:
>>>> as i wrote earlier i've got many packages backported from fedora:
>>>> http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/SRPMS/
>>>> but none of them really working (there are many kvm bugs on
>>>> rhel/centos-5 which is not fixed:-()
>>> its a bit academic to have packages if they dont work!
>>
>> each of them working with _some_ guest but none of them working with
>> all..
>>
> 
> thats interesting, is there a table with details somewhere ? eg. What
> ver works with what guest ?

read my mails in kvm list:-)
anyway in short or setup at the end.
guest:
- mandrake-10 can't boot since 72
- centos x86_64 can't boot on 78,79
- fedora-9 can't boot with kernel-2.6.27.x in 77,78,79
- pxe boot not working long ago (at least 69)
we currently use userspace from 72 and kmod from 71 this was the last
usable combination. at a new release i always try to boot these guests
and looking for any new version which will boot all and i immediately
stop building new kmods and stay at that version.
there was a promise for a new stable version for 2.6.28.
imho the bast for wait for that.

- host:
  - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600  @ 2.40GHz
  - Intel S3000AHV
  - 8GB RAM
  - CentOS-5.2
  - kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 x86_64 64bit
- guest-1:
  - CentOS-5.2 - 4 vcpu
  - kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 i386 32bit
- guest-2:
  - CentOS-5.2 - 4 vcpu
  - kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 x86_64 64bit
- guest-3:
  - Mandrake-9 - 1 vcpu
  - kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk 32bit
- guest-4:
  - Mandrake-10 - 1 vcpu
  - kernel-2.6.14.2-p4-smp 32bit
- guest-5:
  - Windows XP Professional 32bit - 2 vcpu
- guest-7:
  - Fedora-9 - 4 vcpu
  - kernel-2.6.27.5-37.fc9.i686

-- 
  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"