On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:43:38PM -0400, Grant McWilliams wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Pasi KÀrkkÀinen <[1]pasik at iki.fi> > wrote: > > 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 "pygrub uses cached and eventually outdated grub.conf, kernel and 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": > [2]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": > [3]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": > [4]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502826 > > " Boot hang when installing HVM DomU": > [5]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524052 > > "[RHEL5 Xen]: PV guest crash on poweroff": > [6]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540811 > > "[RHEL5 Xen]: Cpu frequency scaling is broken on Intel": > [7]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553324 > > RHEL 5.5 kernel changelog: > [8]http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0178.html > > Work-in-progress (Not yet in 5.5): > > "Grub2 guest support for RHEL5 Xen pygrub": > [9]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577511 > > -- Pasi > > 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). -- Pasi