This may have had unintended consequences when testing RDO on RHEL [1]. This is because the extra repository URL is: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/kvm-common/
$releasever is expanded to "7Server", not 7. We've temporarily replaced $releasever by 7 until we figure out the right way to go about this. [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369944 David Moreau Simard Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter] On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:14 PM, David Moreau Simard <d...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Until now, the openstack-nova package in RDO had a lax requirement on > qemu-kvm which potentially meant an older version of qemu-kvm (or > qemu-kvm-rhel) would be installed [1]. > > We have agreed at the RDO meeting this morning to go ahead and > formally require qemu-kvm >= 2.3 from Newton onwards. > This means that the base (~v1.5.3) qemu-kvm from CentOS (or > qemu-kvm-rhel in RHEL) will no longer satisfy that requirement. > > The CentOS virt SIG maintains qemu-kvm-ev (>=2.3) which obsoletes > qemu-kvm and will be preferred if it is available. > This newer version is largely preferred to the one available by > default in CentOS and RHEL due to improvements, bug fixes and features > that are expected to be there by Nova. > > If you consume RDO's master trunk repositories (Delorean > Newton/Delorean Master), this extra repository is already enabled in > delorean-deps.repo [3] and you do not need to do anything. > qemu-kvm-ev will automatically be installed in place of qemu-kvm. > > If you consume RDO from stable releases, the extra repository will > automatically be enabled in the "centos-release-openstack-newton" > package that will eventually be available. > The repository will also be bundled in the "rdo-release.rpm" package > [4] starting at Newton. > > Please let us know if you have any questions or notice any issues. > > Thanks ! > > [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367696 > [2]: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization > [3]: https://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos7-master/delorean-deps.repo > [4]: https://github.com/redhat-openstack/rdo-release/pull/7 > > David Moreau Simard > Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO > > dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter] __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev