2010/11/14 MargoAndTodd <margoandtodd at gmail.com>: > On 11/13/2010 07:44 AM, compdoc wrote: >>> $ 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. :-( >> >> My centos 5.5 has kvm 83. I'm not sure how you got that old stuff > > I am 32 bit. > > yum install kvm kmod-kvm You might have it installed it with yum, but in that case you've added 3rd party RPM-repositories (rpmforge, EPEL, etc). These are the packages which were available in *32 bit* CentOS 5.5 at release time (search for kvm and you'll find nothing): http://mirror.stanford.edu/yum/pub/centos/5.5/os/i386/CentOS/ And these are the packages available currently to *32bit* CentOS 5.5 through updates: http://mirror.stanford.edu/yum/pub/centos/5.5/updates/i386/RPMS/ (still nothing) Now, these are the packages which were available in *64bit* CentOS 5.5 at release time: http://mirror.stanford.edu/yum/pub/centos/5.5/os/x86_64/CentOS/ Notice that this list contains kvm-83-164.el5.x86_64.rpm and other related KVM packages... ...and the current 64-bit updates: http://mirror.stanford.edu/yum/pub/centos/5.5/updates/x86_64/RPMS/ which contains several kvm-packages, with the latest being kvm-83-164.el5_5.23.x86_64.rpm. So, as I said, the 32 bit CentOS doesn't contain KVM, not v36, not v83 - you'll need a 64-bit system. Also, if you want a stable system, DON'T use 3rd party repositories unless you take extremely care and know what you're doing. If you enable some random bleeding edge 3rd party repository, and lets yum install packages and updates from it, you could just as well setup your server with some bleeding edge Linux distribution instead of RHEL/CentOS; Fedora, Ubuntu Desktop, Gentoo, Arch Linux, [insert your favorite bleeding edge distro here]. Unless you've setup yum priorities (which is not a good thing either, but better than nothing), yum will always download the unstable packages from the 3rd party repositories, and replace stable CentOS packages with them (since they're newer). Best regards Kenni