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

[Michael Schenck]

What is the advantage of using userspace version 72 when you're using
version kmod 71?

I'm too new to this to understand the pro's to mismatched versions

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org> wrote:

> as you can read bellow we use on the host kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5.
> qemu is not required for kvm, but we use qemu-img-0.9.1-10
>
> Michael Schenck wrote:
> > 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
> > <mailto: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.
> >     <http://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
> >
> >     --
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