Is there a way to use kvm-amd on centos 5.1? I dont want to mess with XEN. I want the hardware virtualization that is on my AMD chip. I played with putting 2.6.24 and centos 5.1 on my AMD laptop, got kvm-amd and that works. However I want to put this on my desktop that is running 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5. Is there a way or do I just wave to use 2.6.24 or 25. Thanks, Jerry
Jerry Geis wrote:> Is there a way to use kvm-amd on centos 5.1? > > I dont want to mess with XEN. I want the hardware virtualization that is > on my AMD chip. >what effort did you make to research this first ? What did you try ? What specific problems did you run into ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:> Is there a way to use kvm-amd on centos 5.1? > > I dont want to mess with XEN. I want the hardware virtualization that is on > my AMD chip. > > I played with putting 2.6.24 and centos 5.1 on my AMD laptop, got kvm-amd > and that works. However > I want to put this on my desktop that is running 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5. Is > there a way or do I just > wave to use 2.6.24 or 25.First, this may be best discussed in the CentOS-Virt mailing list. If you are willing to *test* it, the kvm rpm is available for CentOS 5 in the testing repo (testers are always welcome). :-) Install kvm and kmod-kvm from testing. The only "problem" is that the kmod -kvm is not up-to-date. It is for kernel 2.6.18-8.1.14. I suppose Daniel can build it for the current kernel which you have. Akemi Akemi
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:> I want to put this on my desktop that is running 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5. Is > there a way or do I just wave to use 2.6.24 or 25.yum install kmod-kvm should do the trick, because KVM is in extras. I am currently working on KVM-66 packages as well, that will be pushed to testing if they work ok. Take care, Daniel