[CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

Thu Feb 20 09:04:07 UTC 2014
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:02:17AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:51:40AM +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> > On 18/02/14 20:54, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 07:19:07PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > >> On 02/18/2014 04:43 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > >>> Hello,
> > >>>
> > >>> A couple of TODO items/suggestions:
> > >>>
> > >>> 1) Xen 4.2.4 was just released:
> > >>>    http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg01624.html
> > >>>
> > >>>    I think we should first update Xen4Centos6 rpms to Xen 4.2.4 
> > >>>    to have a "known good" release from the stable branch currently in use in Xen4Centos6.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> 2) After that, we should start packaging/testing Xen 4.3.2:
> > >>>    http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg01622.html
> > >>>
> > >>>    Xen 4.3 brings much improved XL toolstack in addition to a lot of other changes/fixes.    
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> my understanding was that we might skip 4.3, and rebase from 4.2 to 4.4
> > >> once that hits the released path
> > >>
> > > 
> > > Hmm, I'm not sure if skipping 4.3 is a good idea.. 
> > > 
> > > I believe the following distros/products are (or will be) shipping Xen 4.3:
> > > 
> > > - Next version of XenServer
> > 
> > We have been testing the 4.4 RCs in XenServer and it is likely that we
> > will switch to using 4.4 soon after its release.
> > 
> 
> That's good to know.
> 

Oh, another question.. are there any important not-yet-upstream patches in the XS dom0 kernel queue for Linux 3.10? 

We should probably update the xen4centos6 linux 3.10 dom0 kernel rpms aswell.

-- Pasi