[CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4.1-rc1+ rebase

Mon Jul 7 17:12:11 UTC 2014
George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu>

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:21 PM, George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu> wrote:
> I've got a first cut of the rebase here:
>
> git://github.com/gwd/sig-virt-xen out/update-4.4.1-rc1-ee81dda-RFC
>
> To build it, you'll need to download the polarssl tarball:
>
> http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-extfiles/polarssl-1.1.4-gpl.tgz
>
> And you'll need a tarball based on (unfortunately) a private tree,
> which you can find here:
>
> git://github.com/gwd/xen base/update-4.4.1-rc1-ee81dda-RFC
>
> This branch is based on upstream ee81dda (the current staging-4.4),
> with an additional two backported commits.
>
> To reproduce the tarball, checkout the above branch, then:
>
> ./configure
> make -C tools qemu-xen-dir-find
> make -C tools qemu-xen-traditional-find
> make src-tarball
>
> A couple of notes:
>
> * I haven't actually had time to test this yet!  This is just so we're
> not totally duplicating work...
> * This does not have XSA-100 in it yet, so it's not quite ready for release.

Actually, it turns out it *does* have XSA-100; and it seems to install
over xen4centos xen-4.2.4 just fine.  (Although I accidentally built
it in an environment with ocaml installed, so my RPM required me to
install ocaml... I expect that will be fine built in a normal
environment).

 -George