I recently discovered that there’s a rawhide virtualization repository available for fedora 11 users who don’t want to add the rawhide repository but want access to the latest updates to virtualization packages. It gives you access the latest updates to packages such as libvirt, qemu-kvm, virt-manager, bochs-bios amongst others. Today an announcement went out announcing the latest updates to these packages. The following is a list of these updates.

Thu Aug 6 2009 Mark McLoughlin - 0.7.0-2

- Make sure qemu can access kernel/initrd (bug #516034)
- Set perms on /var/lib/libvirt/boot to 0711 (bug #516034)

Wed Aug 5 2009 Daniel Veillard - 0.7.0-1

- Upstream release of 0.7.0
- ESX, VBox3, Power Hypervisor drivers
- new net filesystem glusterfs
- Storage cloning for LVM and Disk backends
- interface implementation based on netcf
- Support cgroups in QEMU driver
- QEmu hotplug NIC support
- a lot of fixes

To access the repository, add a file to your /etc/yum.repos.d directory with a name such as fedora-virt-preview.repo with the following contents.

[virt-preview]
name=Virtualization Rawhide for Fedora 11
baseurl=http://markmc.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/f11/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Below shows a screenshot of the current packages available in the repository.

You can browse these packages by http using the following link.

http://markmc.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview

Enjoy!