From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Tracking KVM development Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:42:52 +0200 Message-ID: <4BA64C8C.3010908@redhat.com> References: <1f0fa7ae1003210421x734e8c1bid1ad04c0f3c51885@mail.gmail.com> <4BA60FB5.5070609@redhat.com> <1f0fa7ae1003210937h62a1baa1q734692b9a11d30ef@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_L=F8cke?= Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:57693 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751572Ab0CUQmz (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:42:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1f0fa7ae1003210937h62a1baa1q734692b9a11d30ef@mail.gmail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/21/2010 06:37 PM, Thomas L=F8cke wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: > =20 >> Tracking git repositories and stable setups are mutually exclusive. = If you >> are interested in something stable I recommend staying with the dist= ribution >> provided setup (and picking a distribution that has an emphasis on k= vm). If >> you want to track upstream, use qemu-kvm-0.12.x stable releases and >> kernel.org 2.6.x.y stable releases. If you want to track git reposi= tories, >> use qemu-kvm.git and kvm.git for the kernel and kvm. >> =20 > Thanks Avi. > > I will stay with the stable qemu-kvm releases and stable kernel.org > kernel releases from now on. > > I've never heard of any KVM specific distributions. Are you aware of > any? My primary reason for going with Slackware, is because I already > know it. But if there are better choices for a KVM virtualization > host, then I'm willing to switch. > =20 The only kvm-specific distribution I know of is RHEV-H, but that's=20 probably not what you're looking for. I'm talking about distributions=20 that have an active kvm package maintainer, update the packages=20 regularly, have bug trackers that someone looks into, etc. At least=20 =46edora and Ubuntu do this, perhaps openSuSE as well (though the latte= r=20 has a stronger Xen emphasis). --=20 error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function