On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:02:59PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 09:52:45AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On 12 June 2018 at 07:24, Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > For example, I wanted to compile QEMU once and install it on multiple > > > systems. What would be the suggested way to do so? > > > > For this, I would recommend using whatever the packaging > > format for those systems is. Eg for Debian use the existing > > Debian QEMU packages, for Redhat systems use RPMs, etc. > > If you want a newer version of QEMU than is in the distro's > > packages, you can probably forward port the packaging parts > > to a newer QEMU without too much pain. > > > > Or you can use a distro-agnostic packaging tool of some sort; > > there are a few out there but I have no particular recommendations. > > I'll start my investigation with RPM first. Thanks Peter.
If you're interested in Fedora, I maintain a Copr repository which provides RPMs for every QEMU version since 1.4.0 and every libvirt version since 1.2.0... https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/berrange/virt-ark/ Yeah, Fedora 28 is missing, but I'll be adding it real soon. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
