Re: [Qemu-devel] Which qemu version to use for CentOS6?

[Andy Cress]

Stefan,

That is what I needed to know.  Thanks.
It was somewhat surprising to see how many patches have been backported to the 
CentOS6.3 source rpm.  

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 9:41 AM
To: Andy Cress
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Which qemu version to use for CentOS6?

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 02:24:01PM +0000, Andy Cress wrote:
> I have a project that needs to run on CentOS 6.3, but the qemu that comes 
> with that is 0.12, and I'm sure that I should apply a newer version.
> I had backported the qemu 1.0-17 from Fedora 17, but I see that the upstream 
> qemu-1.1 is stable.   Are there kernel dependencies that would prevent 
> running qemu-1.1 on the 2.6.32 CentOS 6 kernel?

The qemu-kvm in CentOS 6.3 is not a vanilla QEMU 0.12.  Look at the source rpm 
and you'll see a lot of features and fixes have been backported.

Is there a feature missing that forced you to build your own qemu-kvm?
If not, don't worry about the version number and use the distro package.

Stefan