[CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

Thu Feb 20 09:02:17 UTC 2014
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

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.

Thanks!

-- Pasi