Qemu-kvm-ev With CentOS 7.1
Hello, All!
Is it possible to use binary packages build from http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5/rpm/el7/SRPMS/qemu-kvm-ev-2.1.2-23.el7_1.3.1.src.rpm with plain CentOS 7.1 and use all other packages from CentOS
(libvirt, virt-manager, etc)
Is it have reasons, if I not use live migrations and qcow2 snapshots?
(instead use zfs, zvols and zfs snapshots for VM disks online backups)
Is using qemu-kvm-ev with CentOS 7.1 have any disadvantages?
4 thoughts on - Qemu-kvm-ev With CentOS 7.1
Yes, you can. In fact you can use the binaries from the ovirt repo itself, no need to rebuild.
Note that qemu-kvm-ev is built within Virt SIG too in kvm-common-testing CBS repo
Packages from kvm-common-testing probably is not a good choice for using in production environment.
I found in internet package http://cbs.CentOS.org/repos/virt7-kvm-common-release/source/SRPMS/qemu-kvm-ev-2.1.2-23.el7_1.3.1.src.rpm
http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5/rpm/el7/SRPMS/qemu-kvm-ev-2.1.2-23.el7_1.3.1.src.rpm
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As I understand from wiki https://wiki.CentOS.org/HowTos/oVirt oVirt is upstream for Red Hat’s Enterprise Virtualization product.
For first look http://cbs.CentOS.org/repos/ is unofficial source even https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=__all know only about “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager”
and “oVirt”, and it know nothing about kvm-common-testing CBS repo.
Searching in google “qemu-kvm-ev site:https://bugs.CentOS.org/”
I found only one tiket: https://bugs.CentOS.org/view.php?id
So I suggest you to wait next week when oVirt 3.5.4 will go GA including an updated qemu-kvm-ev.