From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: KVM rpm/deb packages for recent releases. Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:54:35 +0200 Message-ID: <48EE7D9B.6080504@lfarkas.org> References: <723163.23591.qm@web35807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20081008191221.GE19052@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jd , KVM List To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Return-path: Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.26]:27245 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755501AbYJIVyl (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:54:41 -0400 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so92766eyi.37 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:54:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20081008191221.GE19052@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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/ -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"