9:01 a.m.
WHY CentOS still using qemu-kvm 0.12?
What I am need is high version of qemu-kvm for CentOS, but seems like they do not
officially provide newest qemu, only qemu 0.12 source code with 3522 patched rpm package.
Is there any reasonable to keep low version for qemu-kvm ? or what should I do if I need
newest qemu-kvm rpm package?
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kerwin
2:23 p.m.
Centos is not going to generally have the cutting edge stuff. For that why not try fedora
which will generally package with the newest libraries from various packages, including
qemu .
I think the current fedora repos have qemu 2.1
On Jul 6, 2014, at 10:01 AM, kerwin <piaoyuankui(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
WHY CentOS still using qemu-kvm 0.12?
What I am need is high version of qemu-kvm for CentOS, but seems like they do not
officially provide newest qemu, only qemu 0.12 source code with 3522 patched rpm package.
Is there any reasonable to keep low version for qemu-kvm ? or what should I do if I need
newest qemu-kvm rpm package?
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kerwin
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2:25 p.m.
On 07/06/2014 01:23 PM, jayunit100(a)gmail.com wrote:
[please don't top-post on technical lists]
Centos is not going to generally have the cutting edge stuff. For
that why not try fedora which will generally package with the newest libraries from
various packages, including qemu .
I think the current fedora repos have qemu 2.1
qemu 2.1 is not released yet, but yes, rawhide (and therefore the
fedora-virt-preview repo on Fedora 20) are currently shipping qemu
2.1-rc0 (and soon rc1). Note that 2.1-rc0 has a bug that prevents
libvirt from using qemu properly, which upstream qemu hopes to have
fixed in time for the actual 2.1 release.
> On Jul 6, 2014, at 10:01 AM, kerwin <piaoyuankui(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> WHY CentOS still using qemu-kvm 0.12?
Because CentOS borrows from RHEL, and the engineers at Red Hat have
determined that enterprise stability is worth backporting thousands of
carefully vetted patches rather than rebasing potentially unstable code
that picks up even more unaudited upstream commits.
If you need newer code but still with assurances of enterprise quality
performed by Red Hat, then consider using RHEL 7.0 (and CentOS 7 can't
be too far behind...)
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7:17 a.m.
On 06.07.2014 16:01, kerwin wrote:
WHY CentOS still using qemu-kvm 0.12?
What I am need is high version of qemu-kvm for CentOS, but seems like
they do not officially provide newest qemu, only qemu 0.12 source code
with 3522 patched rpm package.
With distros it's always a question of stability vs bleeding edge. It's
not possible to have git builds every day and guarantee enterprise
stability at the same time. CentOS and RHEL are distributions that
prefer enterprise stability to the latest versions of all packages. If
you, however, want newer version of some package, you can still download
its source code and build it from there. Or use a distribution that
packages only the fresh new stuff out there.
Michal
9:10 a.m.
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From: "Michal Privoznik" <mprivozn(a)redhat.com>
To: "kerwin" <piaoyuankui(a)gmail.com>, libvirt-users(a)redhat.com
Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 8:17:51 AM
Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] qemu-kvm version for CentOS
On 06.07.2014 16:01, kerwin wrote:
> WHY CentOS still using qemu-kvm 0.12?
>
> What I am need is high version of qemu-kvm for CentOS, but seems like
> they do not officially provide newest qemu, only qemu 0.12 source code
> with 3522 patched rpm package.
With distros it's always a question of stability vs bleeding edge. It's
not possible to have git builds every day and guarantee enterprise
stability at the same time. CentOS and RHEL are distributions that
prefer enterprise stability to the latest versions of all packages. If
you, however, want newer version of some package, you can still download
its source code and build it from there. Or use a distribution that
packages only the fresh new stuff out there.
The CentOS virt sig would be one to follow here.
http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization
Michal
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