Running windows programs under Linux

[Tom H]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:


> Well, it is part of CentOS 6 (64-bit only):
>
> sauron.deepsoft.com% dir /centos64*/*/*/*kvm*
> /centos64x86_64/1/Packages/qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.355.el6.x86_64.rpm
> /centos64x86_64/1/Packages/qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.355.el6.x86_64.rpm
>
> I would guess it is in 64-bit Fedora and there probably srpms available that
> could be rpmbuild to suit.

qemu-kvm was an x86 fork of qemu targeted at kvm. AFAIK, all of its
features were merged back into qemu 1.2 or 1.3.

Nonetheless, RHEL 7 still uses the qemu-kvm package name even though
it's at version 1.5...


> sauron.deepsoft.com is running CentOS 5 and xen,
> newserver.wendellfreelibrary.org is running CentOS 6 and kvm.

And when you get another server, you''ll call it newnewserver or newerserver. :)


> I suspect that when I upgrade sauron to CentOS 6 (I am in no hurry to do so),
> it will happily run KVM.

RHEL 6/7 don't have xen dom0 support so:

- if you move to Centos 6 and you stick with xen, you'll have to use
the centosplus repo;

- if you move to Centos 7 and you want to stick with xen, you'll have
to build your own kernel and tools because there aren't any srpms/rpms
available (yet).