On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:19:34AM +1100, Norman Gaywood wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:28:56PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:43:38PM -0400, Grant McWilliams wrote: > > > Are these changes in the kernel or changes to the installed Xen? I'm > > > wondering if this effects anyone using Xen 3.4 or newer. > > > > I think they're mixed.. you need to go through the bugzillas to figure out. > > (and possibly compare to the kernel changelog above). > > This may be a dumb/FA question but how do you run Xen 3.4+ with the latest > Centos kernel? > By using http://gitco.de/repo/ packages. They include only the new hypervisor rpms, you still use the stock centos dom0 kernel. > Are there centos/redhat kernels rebuilt with newer Xen or do you have > to do this yourself? > No need to re-build the kernel. > I see source for kernel 2.6.18 with Xen 3.4 here: > > http://www.xen.org/products/xen_source.html > > but that kernel does not have all the fixes that have gone into the > RH/Centos 2.6.18 kernel. > Yes, http://xenbits.xen.org/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg does have all the latest xen features and fixes, but it doesn't have driver/security fixes like rhel/centos kernel has. -- Pasi