[Openstack-operators] CentOS 7 KVM and QEMU 2.+

Leslie-Alexandre DENIS contact at ladenis.fr
Thu Nov 12 18:57:05 UTC 2015


Le 12/11/2015 18:26, Erik McCormick a écrit :
> I've been building these and running them on CentOS for a while,
> mainly to get RBD support. They work fine.
>
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/7Server/en/RHEV/SRPMS/
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Arne Wiebalck <Arne.Wiebalck at cern.ch> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What about the CentOS Virt SIG’s repo at
>>
>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos-7/7/virt/x86_64/kvm-common/
>>
>> (and the testing repos at:
>> http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/virt/x86_64/kvm-common/ )?
>>
>> These contain newer versions of the qemu-* packages.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Arne
>>
>>>> Arne Wiebalck
>> CERN IT
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 12 Nov 2015, at 17:54, Leslie-Alexandre DENIS <contact at ladenis.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello guys,
>>>
>>> I'm struggling at finding a qemu(-kvm) version up-to-date for CentOS 7 with official repositories
>>> and additional EPEL.
>>>
>>> Currently the only package named qemu-kvm in these repositories is *qemu-kvm-1.5.3-86.el7_1.8.x86_64*, which is a bit outdated.
>>>
>>> As what I understand QEMU merged the forked qemu-kvm into the base code since 1.3 and the Kernel is shipped with KVM module. Theoretically we can just install qemu 2.+ and load KVM in order to use nova-compute with KVM acceleration, right ?
>>>
>>> The problem is that the packages openstack-nova{-compute} have a dependencies with qemu-kvm. For example Fedora ships qemu-kvm as a subpackage of qemu and it appears to be the same in fact, not the forked project [1].
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In a word, guys how do you manage to have a QEMU v2.+ with latest libvirt on your CentOS computes nodes ?
>>> Is somebody using the qemu packages from oVirt ? [2]
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> See you
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> [1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/qemu-kvm
>>> [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5/rpm/el7Server/x86_64/
>>>
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Thanks everybody for your great inputs, I'll consider the 3 options for 
our platform.

Thanks,
See you



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