[CentOS-virt] RHEL 5.5 Xen fixes

Wed Mar 31 15:38:27 UTC 2010
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

Hello,

RHEL 5.5 has been released, and it contains many Xen related fixes.

Here's the most important of the them.. fixing a dom0 caching bug which 
could cause domU disk corruption when the domU disk was accessed from dom0 
after the domU was shutdown. Most people noticed this bug when pygrub
used wrong (cached) information.

"pygrub uses cached and eventually outdated grub.conf, kernel and initrd":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466681


And some more:

"Xen hypervisor doesn't mask xsave feature from the guest; Fedora 11 PV domU kernel crashes":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524719

"[RHEL-5 Xen]: F-11 Xen 64-bit domU cannot be started with > 2047MB of memory":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502826

" Boot hang when installing HVM DomU":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524052

"[RHEL5 Xen]: PV guest crash on poweroff":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540811

"[RHEL5 Xen]: Cpu frequency scaling is broken on Intel":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553324



RHEL 5.5 kernel changelog:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0178.html


Work-in-progress (Not yet in 5.5):

"Grub2 guest support for RHEL5 Xen pygrub":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577511


-- Pasi