On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 06:10:41AM -0800, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 02/19/2014 03:51 AM, 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. > > > > David, > > Is this the proper qemu-xen snapshot to use for xen-4.2.4 ? > > http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=qemu-upstream-4.2-testing.git;a=commit;h=6d17c397dfadb29e641d5da1eb3381d240decedc > It seems to have the qemu-xen-4.2.4 tag, so yes, it's the one. You can also always fetch the xen 4.2.4 tarball and compare to it (it includes the qemu bits aswell). > Do we need any other patches in that? > Not that i'm aware of.. did we have any extra qemu patches on top of 4.2.3 ? > Also, we are currently using > blktap-9960138790b9d3610b12acd153bba20235efa4f5.tar.gz .. is that still > the best version to use? > David has to answer that.. -- Pasi