From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amit Shah Subject: Re: Benchmarking on CentOS 5 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:35:29 +0530 Message-ID: <200806021435.30298.amit.shah@qumranet.com> References: <483D9AE5.6040509@cs.ualberta.ca> <48400371.3060208@cisco.com> <484039C1.2010806@bppiac.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Ahern" , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Farkas Levente Return-path: Received: from mis011-2.exch011.intermedia.net ([64.78.21.129]:54543 "EHLO mis011-2.exch011.intermedia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752807AbYFBJC5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 05:02:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <484039C1.2010806@bppiac.hu> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 30 May 2008 23:00:41 Farkas Levente wrote: > this is out production server at the development department (10-15) > people using it so actually if i tell them that i'll stop the host and > all guests for max an hour it's acceptable, but more not really. it's > run it type programs. from my experience in the last 6-12 months is that > kvm is not production ready. as you can read from this list there are > far too many change day-by-day which are very core. and this comes from > the current state of kvm. which indicate that rh can't include in there You'll find the most stable version of kvm in the kernel that your distribution ships. Linux-2.6.x (where x > 20) should also be stable. The development on kvm will continue to proceed at a fast pace, so you'll see several kvm releases and this, as a result, is bound to bring in a few new bugs in each iteration. > imho the biggest problem with the current development of kvm that there > is not a stable releases which is somewhat related to the current > release number. eg kvm-0.5.x kvm-0.6.x would be better. but currently So the short answer is: if you're looking for a stable version of kvm, look at a kernel.org kernel or the kvm version provided to you by your distribution. > kvm development is so fast that keep 2-3 parallel branch where there is > a development and stable release seems to too much work. > so to answer to your question i don't know:-( The "stable" branch of kvm is the one in the most-recently available Linux kernel from kernel.org. kvm.git is the development version.