[CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

[David Vrabel]

On 18/02/14 20:54, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 07:19:07PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 02/18/2014 04:43 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> A couple of TODO items/suggestions:
>>>
>>> 1) Xen 4.2.4 was just released:
>>>    http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg01624.html
>>>
>>>    I think we should first update Xen4Centos6 rpms to Xen 4.2.4 
>>>    to have a "known good" release from the stable branch currently in use in Xen4Centos6.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2) After that, we should start packaging/testing Xen 4.3.2:
>>>    http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg01622.html
>>>
>>>    Xen 4.3 brings much improved XL toolstack in addition to a lot of other changes/fixes.    
>>
>>
>> my understanding was that we might skip 4.3, and rebase from 4.2 to 4.4
>> once that hits the released path
>>
> 
> Hmm, I'm not sure if skipping 4.3 is a good idea.. 
> 
> I believe the following distros/products are (or will be) shipping Xen 4.3:
> 
> - Next version of XenServer

We have been testing the 4.4 RCs in XenServer and it is likely that we
will switch to using 4.4 soon after its release.

David