[libvirt] libvirt for rhel-5?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:00:25PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> Alan Pevec wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Daniel P. Berrange
> > <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> NB, if you're re-packaging libvirt for EPEL-5, be warned that none of
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#Does_EPEL_replace_packages_provided_within_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_or_layered_products.3F
> > 
> > libvirt cannot be in EPEL-5 since it's in baseOS
> 
> no, i'd like to add to my onw repo and may be later to centos's extras repo.
> the current rhel-5 kvm support is simple unusable:-( you can only use
> xen in that case. and unfortunately as rhel don't want updat their
> kernel in rhel-5 kvm support never will really good.

To clarify there is *NO*  RHEL-5 KVM  support at all. It is not part
of RHEL-5. So it say it is unusable is to criticise something which
does not exist.  Any KVM support found in RHEL-5 is something added
by a 3rd party.

Daniel
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