[CentOS-virt] VirtIO with CentOS 5.4

Thu Jan 21 23:04:51 UTC 2010
Dennis J. <dennisml at conversis.de>

On 01/21/2010 10:59 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On 01/21/2010 04:08 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>> The standard kvm from 5.4 and not the*old*  one from extras
>
> Hrm, this is probably where I'm going wrong.  I have kvm -36 from
> -extras (which bails if you specify a virtio type device).  I'm not
> seeing kvm in the repos for 5.4 or updates/5.4 on mirror.centos.org, i.e.:
>
>     http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.4/os/i386/CentOS/
>
> Which version should I be seeing for 5.4?

AFAIK Red Hat only supports KVM for the x86_64 architecture so if you want 
to use it on i386 you have to build your own packages.

Regards,
   Dennis