On 04/02/2014 10:42 AM, George Dunlap wrote: > I installed CentOS6 with the xen4centos set of packages; then I tried > to install KVM (for performance comparison), I got the following error > in YUM: > > --> Processing Dependency: /usr/share/gpxe/e1000-0x100e.rom for > package: 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.4.x86_64 > Package gpxe-roms-qemu is obsoleted by ipxe-roms-qemu, but obsoleting > package does not provide for requirements > > I manually downloaded the gpxe package and installed it with no > problems, so there are no actual conflicts in the files. Thus, ipxe > probably *shouldn't* obsolete gpxe -- there are no conflicts between > the two, and ipxe doesn't provide what gpxe does. > > If I had already installed KVM, and was toying with the idea of giving > Xen a spin, this may have been enough to deter me. > > I checked with the XenServer guys, and their version of ipxe doesn't > obsolete gpxe; so that must have been something that was introduced in > CentOS. > > -George > OK, the repo here has ipxe that will install with qemu-kvm. NOTE: The seabios in the xen repo is much newer than the one in CentOS-6 .. so we need to test this and make sure xen and kvm still work before rolling into production repo .. here is the testing repo: http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/xen-c6-RC1/ Lets get this tested and results posted on this list. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20140403/5437491d/attachment-0002.sig>