[CentOS-virt] VirtIO with CentOS 5.4

Fri Jan 22 00:40:44 UTC 2010
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> On 01/21/2010 07:01 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried building the kvm packages shipped by redhat on i386 ?
>> apart from the spec file, are there any other changes required ?
>
> I'm working on this right now but running into missing packages as seen
> here:
>
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2009-November/005178.html
>
> I did find, e.g. kvm in updates/5.4, but not in 5.4/os.  Perhaps
> something was fixed for updates that missed the initial build and the
> ones without updates are still missing?
>
> yum-builddep is at least asking for iasl and qspice, qspice requiring
> qcairo, but I'm stuck at that point.

In fact, there is a bug report about missing source rpms:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4042

Akemi