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

[Michael Schenck]

For clarification,  your statement "we currently use userspace from 72 and
kmod from 71" pertains to use with the current centos kernel (2.6.18-92),
correct?  Also, which version of qemu are you using?

- Michael Schenck


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org> wrote:

> 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!"
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