Re: [rdo-dev] qemu-kvm vs qemu-kvm-rhev requirement

On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 09:41:07PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote: > Not so long ago openstack-nova started to require qemu-kvm-rhev instead > of qemu-kvm. > > This made it impossible to install on Virtuozzo, which used to work well > before the change. I think Virtuozzo is based on CentOS. > I skimmed through the related tickets > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367696 > https://review.rdoproject.org/r/1900 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1392820 > https://review.rdoproject.org/r/9858 > > but failed to understand the motivation behind this change. What are > those particular features that are only present in qemu-kvm-rhev and > make the vendor-neutral requirement insufficient? So far we didn't > notice any issues running recent enough QEMU with Nova, but I guess this > must have changed. Dan has already responded. In short, 'qemu-kvm-rhev' is the recommended RPM for Red Hat OSP. - - - FYI, a related change that will get shortly pushed to RDO Nova spec (and to "Queens" branch too): https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/c/13277/ -- Bump the minimum version of 'qemu-kvm-rhev' & libvirt > I'm now trying to figure out what is needed to make our QEMU package > work with Nova; any help will be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Roman.