Trying KVM out before RHEL/SL 5.4?
We were hoping to evaluate KVM in the coming weeks. However as RHEL 5.4 is not yet out, and it'll be a few weeks after that the Scientific Linux releases 5.4, does anyone know of any easy way to go about getting KVM working on SL 5.3? Or would it be better to wait for SL5.4 - if so any ideas when that is likely to be out? Thanks Tim Edwards
Re: Trying KVM out before RHEL/SL 5.4?
Hi, On Thursday 25 June 2009 11:52:31 you wrote: > We were hoping to evaluate KVM in the coming weeks. However as RHEL 5.4 > is not yet out, and it'll be a few weeks after that the Scientific Linux > releases 5.4, does anyone know of any easy way to go about getting KVM > working on SL 5.3? On SL5.3 I've downloaded KVM, built it including the kernel module and installed the .ko in /lib/modules... and the rest in /usr/local. Since the KVM executables are called with their full hardcoded path by some utils, I also had to symlink the executables in /usr/bin. After modprobing the .ko you can use virt-manager or the libvirt based utils to manage your VMs. I haven't had any problems with that setup. Cheers, Andreas
Re: Trying KVM out before RHEL/SL 5.4?
Tim Edwards wrote: We were hoping to evaluate KVM in the coming weeks. However as RHEL 5.4 is not yet out, and it'll be a few weeks after that the Scientific Linux releases 5.4, does anyone know of any easy way to go about getting KVM working on SL 5.3? Or would it be better to wait for SL5.4 - if so any ideas when that is likely to be out? Thanks Tim Edwards They have it in centos-extras. You can either download it directly or, try out a config file / mirror I've been setting up. yum --enablerepo=sl-testing install yum-conf-centos-extras Troy -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI LMSS Group __
Re: Trying KVM out before RHEL/SL 5.4?
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Troy Dawson wrote: > Tim Edwards wrote: >> >> We were hoping to evaluate KVM in the coming weeks. However as RHEL 5.4 >> is not yet out, and it'll be a few weeks after that the Scientific Linux >> releases 5.4, does anyone know of any easy way to go about getting KVM >> working on SL 5.3? Or would it be better to wait for SL5.4 - if so any >> ideas when that is likely to be out? >> >> Thanks >> >> Tim Edwards > > They have it in centos-extras. > You can either download it directly or, try out a config file / mirror I've > been setting up. > > yum --enablerepo=sl-testing install yum-conf-centos-extras The version in the CentOS extras ( -36 ) is fairly old. It was the last stable version when kvm was tested by CentOS (newer ones at that time were not stable enough to be released). Farkas Levente has been maintaining more recent versions of knm for CentOS. While I have not tried them myself, quite a few people have been using the kvm package from there. http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/virt (replace x86_64 with i386 for 32-bit) Akemi
