KVM rpm/deb packages for recent releases.

KVM rpm/deb packages for recent releases.

[jd]

Hi 

 -  I am looking for installable packages (both rpms and deb) for recent versions of KVM (kvm-70 and above).  

    For SUSE/SLES I found, which seems useful (looks official)
    http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/KVM/
 
    Anything similar for RHEL/CentOS or Ubuntu/debian ?
  
 - RHEL and CentOS seems to be at  kvm-36. Is there a process to make higher version of kvm "supported" on such distros? Would any one from RH and Novell know/comment here?


Thanks
/Jd

   

   


      

Re: KVM rpm/deb packages for recent releases.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:06:43PM -0700, jd wrote:
> Hi 
> 
>  -  I am looking for installable packages (both rpms and deb) for recent versions of KVM (kvm-70 and above).  
> 
>     For SUSE/SLES I found, which seems useful (looks official)
>     http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/KVM/
>  
>     Anything similar for RHEL/CentOS or Ubuntu/debian ?
>   
>  - RHEL and CentOS seems to be at  kvm-36. Is there a process to make 
> higher version of kvm "supported" on such distros? Would any one from 
> RH and Novell know/comment here?

No version of KVM is supported on RHEL.  Xen is the virtualization
technology in RHEL-5. Whatever CentOS is shipping is not derived
from anything in RHEL-5.

For up2date RPMs, Fedora (rawhide) is the place to look. We aim to track
latest releases in both upstream kernel (for modules) and kvm (for the
userspace). NB, we don't patch KVM modules to be newer than what's in
Linus' official releases.

Daniel
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Re: KVM rpm/deb packages for recent releases.

[Farkas Levente]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:06:43PM -0700, jd wrote:
>> Hi 
>>
>>  -  I am looking for installable packages (both rpms and deb) for recent versions of KVM (kvm-70 and above).  
>>
>>     For SUSE/SLES I found, which seems useful (looks official)
>>     http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/KVM/
>>  
>>     Anything similar for RHEL/CentOS or Ubuntu/debian ?
>>   
>>  - RHEL and CentOS seems to be at  kvm-36. Is there a process to make 
>> higher version of kvm "supported" on such distros? Would any one from 
>> RH and Novell know/comment here?
> 
> No version of KVM is supported on RHEL.  Xen is the virtualization
> technology in RHEL-5. Whatever CentOS is shipping is not derived
> from anything in RHEL-5.
> 
> For up2date RPMs, Fedora (rawhide) is the place to look. We aim to track
> latest releases in both upstream kernel (for modules) and kvm (for the
> userspace). NB, we don't patch KVM modules to be newer than what's in
> Linus' official releases.

but if you still like here are all required packages:
http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/

-- 
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Re: KVM rpm/deb packages for recent releases.

[Rodrigo Campos]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:06 PM, jd <jdsw2002@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>  -  I am looking for installable packages (both rpms and deb) for recent versions of KVM (kvm-70 and above).

kvm-72 is in debian testing/unstable. You say for etch and a half ?

I didn't find it in backports.org, but you could try downloading the
source package from testing and compile it (you need to add a deb-src
line to the sources.list), something like: "apt-get build-dep kvm;
apt-get source kvm; cd kvm-*; debuild -us -uc" (I didn't test it, but
it shouldn't be too different, perhaps you could not have some
dependency you can install from testing or compile this way too:)


Thanks,
Rodrigo