Howdy, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was the first of the major server distributions to ship KVM as the preferred hypervisor for virtual machine hosting. KVM's upstream development has proceeded at a vigorous pace--faster than Ubuntu's other server cornerstones (LAMP, Samba, Bind, Postfix, etc).
The major version of the KVM userspace shipped in 8.04.2 LTS (kvm-62), and the kvm kernel module in linux-2.6.24 are affected by several key architectural issues that cannot be solved through cherry-picked patches. On March 17, 2009, I posted the following call for testing: * http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/03/ubuntu-server-kvm-call-for-testing.html We have worked through a number of the issues raised after that blog post, and cherry-picked several patches that fix some known bugs. We believe that Ubuntu 9.04's kvm-84 is a far more complete hypervisor. This is a call for one more round of testing of a release-candidate build of that package (kvm - 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu12.1~rc1) in the ubuntu-virt ppa: * https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-virt/+archive/ppa If you are able to assist us with the testing, please add that PPA, and install both the userspace and dkms built kernel module onto your 8.04 and/or 8.10 servers. $ sudo apt-get install kvm kvm-source Please file any bugs against kvm in Launchpad, and please tag them with "kvm-84". * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kvm The goal is to upload a version of kvm-84 to the hardy-backports and intrepid-backports repositories around July 6, 2009. * https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports Thank you, -- :-Dustin -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
