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Re: [Qemu-devel] Which qemu version to use for CentOS6?
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Which qemu version to use for CentOS6? |
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Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:41:13 +0100 |
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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