[CentOS-virt] Differences between qemu-kvm and qemu-kvm-ev

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Sandro,

Could you please enumerate the actual technical differences between stock qemu-kvm and qemu-kvm-ev?
For example, what could one do with qemu-kvm-ev that cannot with qemu-kvm?

Lucian

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
> To: "Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS" <centos-virt at centos.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 October, 2015 08:45:18
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Differences between qemu-kvm and qemu-kvm-ev

> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 1:31 PM, C. L. Martinez <carlopmart at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  What are the real technical difference between qemu-kvm and
>> qemu-kvm-ev packages? What are the advantages to use qemu-kvm-ev (if
>> exists someone)?
>>
>>  Or qemu-kvm-ev makes sense when is used with ovirt only??
>>
> 
> 
> qemu-kvm and qemu-kvm-ev are usually built from the same src.rpm.
> Some newer or advanced virtualization features have been implemented in
> qemu-kvm-ev which are not able to be backported to qemu-kvm for
> compatibility reasons.
> Also, recently qemu-kvm-ev has a newer qemu-kvm version than the one
> provided by qemu-kvm being qemu-kvm-ev rebuilt from Red Hat Enterprise
> Virtualization.
> 
> 
>>
>> Thanks.
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