2010/11/13 MargoAndTodd <margoandtodd at gmail.com>: > On 11/11/2010 01:50 PM, Kenni Lund wrote: >> No, you're not running an old version of qemu-kvm in CentOS. Like most >> other packages, Red Hat has selected an (old and stable) version as >> the baseline version and then backported bugfixes and new features >> from newer versions of the package, to fulfill the needs of their >> enterprise customers. kvm-83 in CentOS is NOT equal to upstream >> kvm-83. That said, as you've probably already read in the docs, KVM is >> a "technology preview" in RHEL 5.x...6.0 will be the first version >> with official/stable KVM support by Red Hat. >> >> Best regards >> Kenni > > Hi Kenni, > > This is my setup: > > $ cat /etc/redhat-release > CentOS release 5.5 (Final) > > $ uname -r -m > 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 i686 > > $ rpm -qa \*kvm\* > kvm-36-1 > kmod-kvm-36-3 > > > Not even close to 83. :-( These KVM-packages are from some 3rd party repository, aren't they? I don't think that 5.5 has KVM support on i686 at all...use CentOS 5.5 x86_64 instead. Best regards Kenni