Re: [Users] about live snapshot and qemu-kvm

Skickat från min iPhone 28 dec 2013 kl. 16:04 skrev "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow(a)redhat.com&gt;: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Gianluca Cecchi" <gianluca.cecchi(a)gmail.com&gt; >> To: "Ayal Baron" <abaron(a)redhat.com&gt; >> Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; >> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 5:34:25 AM >> Subject: Re: [Users] about live snapshot and qemu-kvm > >> Yes, but is the reason of different versions something you can share >> or not? Just to let the people understand.. >> Perhaps something related to compatibilities to maintain with 6.0 >> initial release due to policies red hat uses? >> I think duplicating the maintenance effort is negative for red hat >> too.. Or not? > > There are a few packages in RHEL that we need to move more quickly that would be possible within the RHEL policies. OpenvSwitch and QEMU are two such packages. > The version of QEMU in RHEL started on 0.12 and has since had a large amount of backported features and bugfixes in many cases the backports were significant, perhaps more than should have been done. > We're getting to the point that in future versions of RHEL we're likely to carry a newer version of packages like QEMU in the layered products (such as RHEV and RHEL-OSP) so that we can keep the base versions in RHEL and more aggressively rebase in the layered products. > > The qemu-kvm-rhev binary that's shipped in RHEV is built from the same source as qemu-kvm but with a different build option. If CentOS doesn't currently build that package it could easily be done or perhaps built by oVirt. I for one would very much like to see this built. I was surprised to learn that this was not handled already, because if live snap works in Fedora, why not CentOS, you know...