Running windows programs under Linux

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:26:51 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 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. :)

Maybe.  Maybe not.  And not going to happen for at least 5 years.

> 
> 
> > 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;

No, I'll just move to kvm.  Since all of the VMs are on their own lvm logical 
volumns, that should be basically trivial.

> 
> - 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).

That is way far down the road...

> 

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