On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:16 PM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have filed a number of bugs against KVM and EL6 in the > past two weeks. Inevitably, the response comes back > that it is fixed or going to be fixed in EL7, but not > in EL6. > > Am I to presume that despite the promise of support till > 2020 that KVM has abandoned further development on > EL6? > > Many thanks, > -T
As a server? Why would you bother to continue to run that on SL6 or EL6, when SL7 and EL7 are more likely to be able to run far more recent operating guest operating systems effectively? The 'qemu-kvm' module jumped from 0.12.1 in SL6 to 1.5.3 for SL7 virt-manager jumped from 0.10.0 to 1.1.0, along with other components. So why burn time backporting fixes, or expecting a backport of a kernel sensitive major upgrade, when you can use the more recent base OS for a similar licensing price? Now, separatley, near as I can tell, KVM got shot through the head by the user interface. virt-manager is just not as good as some of the other closed tools, like the Windows based XenCenter client and VMware's clunky but well established GUI.
