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

Wed Nov 19 19:52:13 UTC 2008
Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org>

Michael Schenck 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.

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:-()

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