Hi, I'm currently working on a virtualization-based security project whose aim is to be Common Criteria-certified in its final version. What we did was start working with Fedora 18, which should be the basis for RHEL 7. However, it turns out having more recent versions of the KVM-related packages (qemu and libvirt, namely) could be a good help as it would allow us to use vfio. In my understanding, vfio isn't available with the qemu version used on F18. So here is my question : will RHEL7 stictly stick to the F18 packages versions or will it use more up-to-date version ?

On 09/07/2013 10:22 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > No one on this list is able to give you a definitive answer, as this > list cares mainly about upstream Fedora and is not an official RHEL > channel. If you need to know what RHEL 7 will contain, speak with your > Red Hat sales representative. But in all likelihood, RHEL 7 will be > closer to Fedora 19 or even 20 than it will be to Fedora 18, if only > because Fedora 19 has already been released and RHEL 7 has not. It's also worth noting that Red Hat often backports features from more recent kernels into the RHEL kernels. So the most recent RHEL 6 kernel, 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6, has a bunch of features that weren't in 2.6.32. As Eric said, if you have a relationship with Red Hat, you may be able to get some insight into the RHEL roadmap. OTOH, it's entirely possible that even Red Hat doesn't yet know if this particular feature will ever make it into RHEL 7; the future is like that sometimes. -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher arequipeno(a)gmail.com Sometimes there's nothing left to do but crash and burn...or die trying. ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ virt mailing list virt(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt