On Sep 14, 2011 5:13 PM, "Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
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> [let's keep the list in the loop]
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> On 09/14/2011 04:07 PM, Trey Dockendorf wrote:
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>>> Given your original qeustion, if your management apps really do require
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>> 0.8.8 APIs, then you'll need to upgrade libvirtd on your CentOS host to be
>> at least 0.8.8 in order to honor your management app requests, or else
>> modify your management app to gracefully implement fallbacks to older API
>> approaches that were available in 0.8.1.
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>> How risky is it to implement a newer version of libvirt in something like
>> centos?  I figure based on the huge number of dependencies that its not
>> something to safely do.  So far we building my libvirt rpms Ive only used
>> the same source for the version with centos and the libvirt specs provided
>> in the fedora src rpms.  Do the specs know to check for specific versions of
>> dependencies?
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> There's not that many source dependencies for building a newer libvirt out-of-the-box on top of CentOS.  You might also find https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository as a useful example for the amount of effort involved in running newer virt tools on top of an otherwise stable repository.  Also, search the list archives; the topic of installing the latest libvirt on CentOS or RHEL 5 has come up several times recently, with various tidbits of good advice.
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> Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Ah sorry, didnt mean to send off list.  First time replying from my phone.

Ill check that out, thanks.  Ive seen that repo and will hopefully be able to get a test system together.  What should I look out for when attempting an upgrade from the CentOS release( 0.8.1)?  My worry is it will look like everything works while testing and I wont find the bugs in this idea until I move it to my production server.

Thanks
- Trey