[Openstack-operators] CentOS 7 KVM and QEMU 2.+
Erik McCormick
emccormick at cirrusseven.com
Thu Nov 12 17:26:08 UTC 2015
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 Currently the only package named qemu-kvm in these repositories is *qemu-kvm-1.5.3-86.el7_1.8.x86_64*, which is a bit outdated.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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