On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 10:14:09AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > 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. > At least updating from xen-4.2.4-29.el6 to xen-4.2.4-30.el6 went smoothly :) -- Pasi