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

JuanFra Rodríguez Cardoso jfrodriguez at keedio.org
Thu Nov 12 20:55:59 UTC 2015


I agree with Erik! Source RPM packages from RH are a good option.

Best,
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JuanFra Rodríguez Cardoso
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On 12 November 2015 at 19:57, Leslie-Alexandre DENIS <contact at ladenis.fr>
wrote:

> 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 *qemu-kvm-1.5.3-86.el7_1.8.x86_64*, which is a bit outdated.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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