[Openstack-operators] CentOS 7 KVM and QEMU 2.+
Arne Wiebalck
Arne.Wiebalck at cern.ch
Thu Nov 12 17:18:56 UTC 2015
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
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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 Currently the only package named qemu-kvm in these repositories is *qemu-kvm-1.5.3-86.el7_1.8.x86_64*, which is a bit outdated.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
>
>
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>
> [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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