On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 05:42:41AM -0400, Federico Simoncelli wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <dan...@redhat.com> > > To: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbona...@redhat.com> > > Cc: crobi...@redhat.com, "users" <us...@ovirt.org>, devel@ovirt.org > > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 3:06:01 PM > > Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] Building vdsm within Fedora > > > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:57:21AM +0200, Sandro Bonazzola wrote: > > > Il 24/09/2014 09:44, Sven Kieske ha scritto: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 24/09/14 09:13, Federico Simoncelli wrote: > > > >> You probably missed the first part "we were using qemu-kvm/qemu-img in > > > >> the spec file". In that case you won't fail in any requirement. > > > >> > > > >> Basically the question is: was there any problem on centos6 before > > > >> committing http://gerrit.ovirt.org/31214 ? > > > > > > Federico: as we checked a few minutes ago, it seems there's no problem in > > > requiring qemu-kvm/qemu-img in the spec file. > > > Only issue is that if non rhev version is installed a manual "yum update" > > > is required for moving to the rhevm version. > > > > Right. Without the patch, RPM does not enforce qemu-kvm-rhev. So our > > code has to check for qemu-kvm-rhev functionality, instead of knowing > > that it is there. Furthermore, we had several reports of users finding > > themselves without qemu-kvm-rhev on their node, and not understanding > > why they do not have live merge. > > Live merge? The biggest problem with live merge is libvirt not qemu.
Sorry, I meant to say live snapshot and refer to http://gerrit.ovirt.org/26149 reporting to Engine if it's available. > > Anyway the qemu-kvm/qemu-kvm-rhev problem is relevant only for centos > and centos has a specific way to address these special needs: > > http://www.centos.org/variants/ > > """ > A CentOS variant is a special edition of CentOS Linux that starts with > the core distribution, then replaces or supplements a specific subset of > packages. This may include replacing everything down to the kernel, > networking, and other subsystems. > """ > > I think the plan was to have our own centos variant (shipping qemu-kvm-rhev). > I remember Doron participated to the centos meetings but I don't remember > the outcome. That would be lovely. EPEL's vdsm can then ship there, in case Fedora cannot depend on a centos variant. Dan. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel