[Users] Problem with required packages when installingovirt-engine

[Randy Evans]

>> The problem is that you are installing fedora packages into SL.  They
were
>> really built for Fedora.  They may actually work, but I believe that
their
>> are some packages missing from base repos for RHEL, SL, and CentOS.
On
>> RHEL, you would get those packages when you added RHEV.  I don't
think they
>> exist for SL or CentOS.  Look through the January messages on this
board.
>> SOmeone was doing the install on one of the EL clones and you may
find more
>> info there.  Otherwise you could try using Fedora.

> Thank you. Yes, I naively assumed that this would install on any
> reasonablly current RPM-based system, since I didn't see (and still
> don't see) any system requirements anywhere in any docs that suggest
> otherwise. All I see says "point to our yum repo and install it". When
> I saw the failed dependencies when I tries to install the engine, I
> started to suspect that this was based on a far "newer" system than I
> had.

> I have now installed Fedora 16, and will try again.
> _______________________________________________


I am somewhat surprised this is not supported for SL or CentOS
considering the main target audience would presumably be Admins with
many critical VM's to manage.  Fedora being generally considered not
really suitable in Production.  Maybe I'm missing something here.





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