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

[Farkas Levente]

ok i was wrong, we use userspace 71 and kmod 72. userspace 71 was the
last one which boot mandrake-10.

Michael Schenck wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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>
>     > <mailto: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.>
>     >     <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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