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

Tue Oct 27 09:16:36 UTC 2015
Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote:

> 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?
>

Adding people that may give you a better answer than mine.


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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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