On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Troy Dawson<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Tim Edwards wrote:
>>
>> We were hoping to evaluate KVM in the coming weeks. However as RHEL 5.4
>> is not yet out, and it'll be a few weeks after that the Scientific Linux
>>  releases 5.4, does anyone know of any easy way to go about getting KVM
>> working on SL 5.3? Or would it be better to wait for SL5.4 - if so any
>> ideas when that is likely to be out?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tim Edwards
>
> They have it in centos-extras.
> You can either download it directly or, try out a config file / mirror I've
> been setting up.
>
> yum --enablerepo=sl-testing install yum-conf-centos-extras

The version in the CentOS extras ( -36 ) is fairly old.  It was the
last stable version when kvm was tested by CentOS (newer ones at that
time were not stable enough to be released).

Farkas Levente has been maintaining more recent versions of knm for
CentOS.  While I have not tried them myself, quite a few people have
been using the kvm package from there.

http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/virt
(replace x86_64 with i386 for 32-bit)

Akemi