Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

Farkas Levente
2007-11-13T09:07:45Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Farkas Levente wrote:
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>>> Farkas Levente wrote:
>>>
>>>> first of all fully update your centos (a bit newer kernel), then i use
>>>> these packages:
>>>> http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/
>>>> use libvirtd and virt-manager too and start the guests from there. and
>>>> start them manually paralell (i used to reboot the host when i update
>>>> kvm, the start virt-manager and start each guests).
>>>>
>>> IIRC virt-manager uses /usr/bin/kvm as its qemu launcher. Maybe it is
>>> running the old userspace. Can you ensure that you are using the new
>>> userspace and new kernel modules at all times?
>>>
>> yes, it's sure. i always run rpm -Uvh kvm... kmod-kvm... and the reboot
>> the host (just to be sure).
>>
>>
>
> Installing the files means nothing. You also need to make sure all your
> tools use the right binaries (or use the command line directly).

ohh come on. i use linux since 94 and i use redhat/rpm since redhat 3.0
(not rhel3) i do know how to install and use packages and which files
are called. there is no any other kvm in the given machine. ok i
understand that you try to find some kind of reason why it's works for
you and not for me but that's not the reason.
anyway it'd be useful to if i can see which version of the userspace
running ie. give a short message into the stslog on the host about the
userspace version may be even a warning in case of the kmod and the
userspace version are different, but currently that's all:
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[root@kvm ~]# rpm -qa|grep kvm
kmod-kvm-52-1.2.6.18_8.1.15.el5
kvm-52-1
[root@kvm ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/qemu-kvm
kvm-52-1
[root@kvm ~]# rpm -V kvm-52-1
[root@kvm ~]# modinfo kvm_intel
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.15.el5/extra/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
license: GPL
author: Qumranet
version: kvm-52
srcversion: F7E80D6C3124584F75EDAAF
depends: kvm
vermagic: 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1
parm: bypass_guest_pf:bool
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what the above means?
- there is only these two packages installed which has the kmv in it's name.
- the files /usr/bin/qemu-kvm is owned by kvm-52-1.
- all files in the kvm-52-1 package is verified so the file
/usr/bin/qemu-kvm also has the right checksum so it's really from kvm-52-1.
- the kernel module can show it's version too.
anyway if you don't believe me just grab src.rpm look into it or
recompile it:
http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/SRPMS/

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