[ovirt-users] 3rd party qemu/libvirt rpms and ovirt

[Itamar Heim]

On 07/08/2014 02:04 PM, Tiemen Ruiten wrote:
> Well yes, I thought of that. But my reasoning was that if I only upgrade
> these specific packages, there is less difference and less potential for
> issues. On the other hand, CentOS 7 is mostly based on Fedora 19, so it
> could work...guess I can only find out by trying.
>
> On 07/08/14 12:03, Sven Kieske wrote:
>> Well if you are desperate enough to try
>> such an unknown third party repo
>> you might as well try the freshly released
>> centos7?
>>
>> Am 08.07.2014 11:54, schrieb Tiemen Ruiten:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to setup a new oVirt environment based on F19 hosts, but I'm
>>> running into so many issues, that I'm thinking of switching 'back' to
>>> CentOS. However I would lose the advanced features (libgfapi, live
>>> snapshots etc.) that are enabled in the F19 libvirt/qemu/kvm packages.
>>> So after some googling a came across Alexandar Evseev's repository with
>>> all the newest virtualization rpms packaged for CentOS 6:
>>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/aevseev/CentOS6/x86_64/
>>>
>>> However, I can't find any information at all about the status of these
>>> packages or any indication about stability. Is anyone familiar with this
>>> repository and would it be possible to use these packages in an oVirt
>>> environment?
>>>
>
>

libgfapi is not enabled in vdsm until libvirt has proper support for 
snapshots.
for the other 'advanved features', you can use the .el6 rpm built in 
jenkins.ovirt.org