On 08/11/2014 01:58 PM, George Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote: >> That's right. We want to test OpenStack with bleeding edge versions of >> libvirt and qemu, but want the underlying OS to be something supported >> for a longer period of time than a given Fedora release. CentOS + a >> testing repo with that software included would be perfect. > > But on the whole, it sounds like your goals and the goals of the Virt > SIG are at odds. The Virt SIG wants to provide a stable base; the > "(1)" group of people mentioned in the Fedora virt-preview wiki page. > As it happens, we plan on updating our libvirt package fairly > frequently at first; but that's just to get some important Xen > functionality in as soon as possible. Once the Xen functionality for > libvirt has stabilized, we'll probably stop. Our plan for qemu was to > re-build the exact RHEL package, but with snapshotting enabled. > > What you're describing would essentially be a completely separate > project: designed for people (like yourselves) who want bleeding-edge > versions. > > Is there a reason you can't just download and build upstream qemu and > libvirt yourselves, and build them on top of CentOS? That's more or > less what the Xen Project automated testing infrastructure does for > testing (although it uses Debian as a base rather than CentOS). We could. Using existing packages would just be a bit easier. I was mainly interested if such a repo existed. I got the answer I was looking for, so thanks! > Or, if you were willing to do the maintenance on such a repo, we might > consider adding such a thing into the Virt SIG. But it would be you > (or other like-minded people) doing the builds either way. OK, understood. Like you said, for my particular case, I can just build from source. I just wanted to see if what I was looking for happened to already exist. Thanks, -- Russell Bryant