On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 07:15 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > from memory a few minutes ago, i was perusing the "Virtualization" > > install choices (didn't select it, though) and noticed that the qemu > > coming with f11b was some git-versioned build. > > > > after i started the install, i popped over to the qemu site: > > > > http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/ > > > > and noticed a fairly recent, official 0.10.1 release (mar 21). is > > there any value in upgrading(?) the f11 version of qemu to the > > official 0.10.1 release? or would that be overly disruptive at this > > point? > > The plan is to ship an official release of kvm-userspace. Confusing, > right? :-) > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_and_QEMU_merge > > Basically, we're now building qemu from the kvm-userspace source > tarball. > > The latest rawhide version is a git snapshot of kvm-userspace from a > stable branch based on qemu-0.10.x. We hope KVM upstream will release > and official version from this branch soon and we'll then include that. > > In the future - maybe in time for F12 - all of kvm will be merged back > into qemu and we'll go back to shipping official qemu tarballs. > > (Btw - fedora-virt-list is a good place to follow developments on this > front) i'll have to follow up on this when i have a bit more time, but i'm looking for online docs on virtualization on fedora, right from the newbie level and up. in a nutshell, later this year, i might be giving a seminar on how to start playing with virtualization, and i want to be able to hand out some beginner-level stuff on how to take a fresh f11 install, and do at least the basics with virtualization. does such a doc exist? and by "doc", i mean a gentle intro for people who truly don't know much (if anything) about virtualization. thanks. and yes, i realize this is getting off-topic so feel free to reply to me offline if you'd prefer. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
