On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 02:24:01PM +0000, Andy Cress wrote: > I have a project that needs to run on CentOS 6.3, but the qemu that comes > with that is 0.12, and I'm sure that I should apply a newer version. > I had backported the qemu 1.0-17 from Fedora 17, but I see that the upstream > qemu-1.1 is stable. Are there kernel dependencies that would prevent > running qemu-1.1 on the 2.6.32 CentOS 6 kernel?
The qemu-kvm in CentOS 6.3 is not a vanilla QEMU 0.12. Look at the source rpm and you'll see a lot of features and fixes have been backported. Is there a feature missing that forced you to build your own qemu-kvm? If not, don't worry about the version number and use the distro package. Stefan
