On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:27:13PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:

hi guys,

This conversation seems to come up often; people are still quite keen on having dom0 support for CentOS-6; If we can answer a few questions, we can move that issue forward a bit :

• What do we need to do in order to make that happen ?
• What code needs to show up in CentOS/Extras or Plus ?
• and is anyone willing to take ownership of handing this ?

M A Young m.a.young@durham.ac.uk has backported the xen patches to the RHEL6 kernel.

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2011-05/msg00454.html

I emailed him some time ago and this is what he told me:

"I haven't talked to the CentOS people but I am quite happy for them to use my kernels if they want. Do you know about my xen packages/kernels on xenbits at http://xenbits.xen.org/people/mayoung/ . It hasn't been more publicised because I haven't had much feedback from people testing it. The kernel is only based on RHEL 6.0, I haven't yet done one from the 6.1 code yet."

Note that http://xenbits.xen.org/people/mayoung/EL6.xen/ appears to be the fedora xen hypervisor recompiled for CentOS6. The kernel is under /testing.

I setup a box the other weekend with CentOS 6 and downloaded the RPMs, and haven't yet gotten around to testing it. This is something I need, so I'm still planning on doing it, but, I've been saying that for a while, so it's probably not rational to count on me finishing it within a timely manner, but here is the info I have.