On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:37:54PM -0700, Aaron Clausen wrote: > I'm running a production Debian Lenny server using KVM to run a couple > of Windows and a couple of Linux guests. All is working well, but I > want to give my Server 2003 guest access to a SCSI tape drive. > Unfortunately, Debian is pretty conservative, and the version of KVM > is too old to support this. Is there a reasonably safe way of > upgrading to one of the newer versions of KVM on this server? I'm interested in this too, so far I have found that Lenny's libvirt fails to parse the output of kvm --help, though this is fixed in the libvirt in testing. The kvm package from experimental seems to work well - after a day of testing. My next step is to try qemu-kvm, built from source. The Debianised libvirt expects the kvm binaries to be in /usr/bin/kvm, so you can symlink them from /usr/local/bin if you prefer to install there. I've also experimented with shell script wrapper in /usr/bin/kvm that condenses the output of qemu-kvm --help so that libvirtd for Lenny works. Regards, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
