[lago-devel] Why do we need qemu-kvm-*ev* ?

Yaniv Kaul ykaul at redhat.com
Thu Mar 9 16:08:35 UTC 2017


On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 1:51 PM Nadav Goldin <ngoldin at redhat.com> wrote:

> > Very surprising. Can't think of a good reason why.
>
> with qemu-kvm-1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64:
>
> libvirt: QEMU Driver error : unsupported configuration: IOThreads not
> supported for this QEMU
>

Ah, my fault for adding iothreads. We could remove them (they don't add
more than a small performance improvement, hardly noticeable most likely)
if it makes deployment harder.
Y.


> I guess snapshots might be another problem, though never tested it.
>
> From what I understand, new features are not always backported to the
> 'plain' 'qemu-kvm'. This[1] was the best explanation I could find,
> though its not really complete.
>
>
>
> [1]
> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2015-October/004717.html
>
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Barak Korren <bkorren at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 9 March 2017 at 11:12, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Very surprising. Can't think of a good reason why.
> >>
> > You are welcome to try and either prove me wrong, or find the reason
> > (And potentially fix it...)
> > Alternatively open a Lago issue and we'll get to it some day...
> >
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