Yes, +1 on EV. It is more current, better maintained and I think it is generally considered the go-to for EL based hypervisors (largely due to the oVirt use).
On Saturday, April 10, 2021, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > Great, thanks for sharing Simon. If we've consensus and there are no > objections I would propose we update the docs around CentOS/KVM to use the > -ev packages. > > Let's hear from others. > > > Thanks and regards. > > ________________________________ > From: Simon Weller <swel...@ena.com.INVALID> > Sent: Friday, April 9, 2021 19:09 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>; > us...@cloudstack.apache.org <us...@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Using qemu-kvm vs qemu-kvm-ev with CloudStack > > Hi Rohit, > > We've been using ev exclusively for a few years now. Our main reason was > in order to support features we upstreamed around KVM iop limits a couple > of years back. > Short of one challenge that was addressed on the ACS side a while ago > related to the patchviasocket integration, it has worked very well and has > been very stable. > > -Si > > ________________________________ > From: Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> > Sent: Friday, April 9, 2021 2:26 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>; > us...@cloudstack.apache.org <us...@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: [DISCUSS] Using qemu-kvm vs qemu-kvm-ev with CloudStack > > All, > > We've recently seen some tests around live VM with storage failing on > CentOS7 which is addressed in this PR: > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/4801 > > Some users have added on the original issue ticket that it works with > qemu-kvm-ev on CentOS: > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/4757#issuecomment-812595973 > > I also see many other IaaS platforms notably oVirt using qemu-kvm-ev, is > there any interest and argument in saying we test and update our docs to > advise users to use qemu-kvm-ev on CentOS? Are there any CloudStack users > who want to share their experience with it who may be using it already? > > The installation steps don't require configuring any 3rd party repository > manually and usually done with: > > yum install centos-release-qemu-ev > yum install qemu-kvm-ev > > Additional references: > https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2015-October/004717.html > (what is qemu-kvm vs qemu-kvm-ev) > https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization (the SIG that > is behind the qemu-kvm-ev repository) > > Thanks and regards. > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com> > 3 London Bridge Street, 3rd floor, News Building, London SE1 9SGUK > @shapeblue > > > > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > 3 London Bridge Street, 3rd floor, News Building, London SE1 9SGUK > @shapeblue > > > >
