Description
The Virtualization Ark
An archive of old/ancient virtualization packages, parallel installable & runnable with the main distros package.
Currently it provides builds of:
- Libvirt, versions from 1.2.0 onwards
- QEMU, versions from 1.4.0 onwards
The RPMs are named "$APP-ark-$VERSION", eg "libvirt-ark-1_2_20". Note the version is part of the RPM name, as well as being in the RPM version. This allows multiple versions to be easily installed in parallel
Installation Instructions
Each package version installs into /opt/$APP/$VERSION, eg /opt/libvirt/1.2.0 or /opt/qemu/2.4.0.
To launch libvirtd
$ sudo /opt/libvirt/1.2.20/sbin/libvirtd
These builds store all their configuration in /opt/libvirt/$VERSION/etc/libvirt, so will not conflict with the main Fedora installed libvirt. As a result though, you need to use the corresponding virsh binary to connect
$ /opt/libvirt/1.2.20/bin/virsh
To test building another app against this version set some environment variables
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/libvirt/1.2.20/lib/pkgconfig
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/libvirt/1.2.20/lib
For libvirtd to pick up a QEMU ark version, it must appear in $PATH before the QEMU from /usr eg
export PATH=/opt/qemu/2.0.0/bin:$PATH
Active Releases
The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).
| Release | Architectures | Repo Download |
|---|---|---|
Fedora 37
|
i386 (39)*, ppc64le (19)*, x86_64 (26)* | Fedora 37 (0 downloads) |
|
Fedora 38
|
i386 (36)*, ppc64le (35)*, x86_64 (14)* | Fedora 38 (37 downloads) |
|
Fedora 39
|
i386 (34)*, ppc64le (31)*, x86_64 (24)* | Fedora 39 (33 downloads) |
|
Fedora 40
|
i386 (0)*, ppc64le (0)*, x86_64 (0)* | Fedora 40 (9 downloads) |
|
Fedora rawhide
|
i386 (19)*, ppc64le (29)*, x86_64 (16)* | Fedora rawhide (234 downloads) |
* Total number of downloaded packages.