[CentOS] Install qemu packages from ovirt instead of original.

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iga3725 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 20 16:43:39 UTC 2018


Hi,
I have a KVM server running on Centos 7.5.
[root at kvm2 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core)


Qemu packages are from Centos repository.
[root at kvm2 ~]# rpm -qa|grep qemu
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-3.9.0-14.el7_5.7.x86_64
qemu-img-1.5.3-156.el7_5.5.x86_64
qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-156.el7_5.5.x86_64
ipxe-roms-qemu-20170123-1.git4e85b27.el7_4.1.noarch
qemu-guest-agent-2.8.0-2.el7_5.1.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-156.el7_5.5.x86_64

But, I want to install a new version of qemu from ovirt repositories. (This because I need live disk snapshots). 

So I installed ovirt yum repository, run yum update and I see qemu will be updated (as you can see below in red)

Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glusterfs.x86_64 0:3.8.4-54.15.el7.centos will be updated
---> Package glusterfs.x86_64 0:3.12.14-1.el7 will be an update
---> Package glusterfs-api.x86_64 0:3.8.4-54.15.el7.centos will be updated
---> Package glusterfs-api.x86_64 0:3.12.14-1.el7 will be an update
---> Package glusterfs-cli.x86_64 0:3.8.4-54.15.el7.centos will be updated
---> Package glusterfs-cli.x86_64 0:3.12.14-1.el7 will be an update
---> Package glusterfs-client-xlators.x86_64 0:3.8.4-54.15.el7.centos will be updated
---> Package glusterfs-client-xlators.x86_64 0:3.12.14-1.el7 will be an update
---> Package glusterfs-fuse.x86_64 0:3.8.4-54.15.el7.centos will be updated
---> Package glusterfs-fuse.x86_64 0:3.12.14-1.el7 will be an update
---> Package glusterfs-libs.x86_64 0:3.8.4-54.15.el7.centos will be updated
---> Package glusterfs-libs.x86_64 0:3.12.14-1.el7 will be an update
---> Package google-chrome-stable.x86_64 0:69.0.3497.92-1 will be updated
---> Package google-chrome-stable.x86_64 0:69.0.3497.100-1 will be an update
---> Package kexec-tools.x86_64 0:2.0.15-13.el7 will be updated
---> Package kexec-tools.x86_64 0:2.0.15-13.el7_5.1 will be an update
---> Package libcacard.x86_64 40:2.5.2-2.el7 will be updated
---> Package libcacard.x86_64 40:2.5.2-2.1.el7 will be an update
---> Package pyOpenSSL.x86_64 0:0.13.1-3.el7 will be obsoleted
---> Package python-coverage.x86_64 0:3.6-0.5.b3.el7 will be obsoleted
---> Package python-dateutil.noarch 0:1.5-7.el7 will be updated
---> Package python-dateutil.noarch 1:2.4.2-1.el7 will be an update
---> Package python-netaddr.noarch 0:0.7.5-9.el7 will be updated
---> Package python-netaddr.noarch 0:0.7.18-1.el7 will be an update
---> Package python-six.noarch 0:1.9.0-2.el7 will be obsoleted
---> Package python2-coverage.x86_64 0:4.4.1-1.el7 will be obsoleting
---> Package python2-pyOpenSSL.noarch 0:16.2.0-3.el7 will be obsoleting
---> Package python2-six.noarch 0:1.10.0-9.el7 will be obsoleting
---> Package qemu-img.x86_64 10:1.5.3-156.el7_5.5 will be obsoleted
---> Package qemu-img-ev.x86_64 10:2.10.0-21.el7_5.4.1 will be obsoleting
---> Package qemu-kvm.x86_64 10:1.5.3-156.el7_5.5 will be obsoleted
---> Package qemu-kvm-common.x86_64 10:1.5.3-156.el7_5.5 will be obsoleted
---> Package qemu-kvm-common-ev.x86_64 10:2.10.0-21.el7_5.4.1 will be obsoleting
---> Package qemu-kvm-ev.x86_64 10:2.10.0-21.el7_5.4.1 will be obsoleting
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Finally I did not update qemu because this KVM server has multiples VMs running and I was not sure if it could impact VMs working.
My question, how can this qemu  update can imapct my already running VMs?
Appreciate your help.
Thanks in advance.
Regards

Israel.



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