[CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen 4.4.1 packages available on virt6-testing

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 06:24:36PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> At long last, I've got some beta CentOS 6 4.4.1 packages up on the CBS.
> 

Great!

> Major updates include:
> * Update to Xen 4.4.1. Also includes all XSAs through 114
> * Update to latest blktap 2.5
> * Updated libvirt packages (1.2.10), which work well with libxl
> 
> To use, add the following to a file in /etc/yum.repos.d:
> 
> [virt-testing]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - virt-testing
> baseurl=http://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt6-testing/$basearch/os/
> gpgcheck=0
> enabled=1
> 
> Notes:
> * git repo with all the changes to xen can be found here:
>  https://github.com/gwd/sig-virt-xen out/virt6/update-4.4.1-4
> 
> * The signing infrastructure is not in place, so the binaries are not signed.
> 
> * xend is now disabled by default.  You can enable it by running
> chkconfig.  xend has been removed from the tree entirely in Xen 4.5,
> so this should (hopefully) serve as a "wake-up-call" for people to
> begin the transition over to xend.
> 
> * A lot have things have changed -- please to test this so we can get
> a good idea what may have broken.
>

I'll test soon. Thanks a lot!

Oh and sorry that I couldn't make it to the Virt SIG call today, I was busy/offline..

 
>  -George


-- Pasi