On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 2:19 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> wrote: > > > 2018-05-10 21:57 GMT+02:00 Lance Albertson <lance at osuosl.org>: > >> I see with the introduction of CentOS 7.5 there's a new qemu-kvm-ma >> package on ppc64le (which is actually newer than qemu-kvm-ev currently). >> Does anyone know what the difference is between these two packages? We >> currently use qemu-kvm-ev and we've run into this bug [1] which got me >> wondering if we should be switching to that package on ppc64le. >> > > qemu-kvm-ma is the non-x86_64 counterpart for qemu-kvm, so it is present > in CentOS > and have some features disabled. Upgrade path is qemu-kvm -> qemu-kvm-ma > (as we > provided some packages on non-x86_64 archs) -> qemu-kvm-ev (in case you > enable CentOS Virt SIG QEMU repo). > Opposite way is not supported and will probably break. > > Please wait a few days, libguestfs package will be updated fixing the bug > you've hit around next week. > > Sadly, the new qemu-kvm-ev we prepared for CentOS 7.5 didn't get released ( > https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=14764) but the new build is ready. > Thanks for the clarification. So it looks like I should wait until the new qemu-kvm-ev is pushed out since that's what I'm currently using? What's really the primary difference between qemu-kvm-ev and qemu-kmv-ma on ppc64le at this point? Also, I'm curious what the "ma" stands for :) Cheers- -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20180511/07674a23/attachment-0004.html>