[CentOS-devel] Xen4Centos7

Sun Sep 7 21:02:17 UTC 2014
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 04:46:42AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 08/13/2014 09:02 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 08/08/2014 11:16 AM, Nuno Fernandes wrote:
> >>
> >>> Is there any timeline or sig planned to xen4centos7?
> >>> I was using xen4centos6 as a base to our distro (http://nuxis.com) and i would
> >>> like to start working on rebasing it to centos7, but i would need xen as dom0.
> >>
> >> I don't believe we've formally started work on this yet, though the xen
> >> project folks who have been working on it with us may have something
> >> going already.
> > 
> > A lot of the sig work in general has been waiting on the availability
> > of the community build system.  That work is progressing apace, and
> > I've just been given access to the development version of it.
> > 
> > However, now I'm heads-down writing a talk for LinuxCon and the Xen
> > Summit in Chicago next week (along with other miscellaneous things),
> > and the following week I'll be on holiday; so I won't be able to start
> > working on the update until September in earnest.
> > 
> > I've posted a draft of a Xen 4.4.1 rebase, though, so if one of the
> > core CentOS team had time / energy, they might be able to start
> > working on something sooner.
> 
> George,
> 
> I just got access to the CBS as well .. I will see if I can get the
> 4.4.1 stuff to build.
> 
> Can you point me at your current version of the 4.4.1 stuff for now?
> 

I CC'd a guy who was already packaged Xen 4.4 for CentOS 7.
(Thanks a lot for sharing the specs/src.rpms!)

They're available here: http://www.tlviewer.org/xen/cent7/dom0/


> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
> 
> 


-- Pasi