[CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

Pasi Kärkkäinen

pasik at iki.fi
Tue Mar 11 08:05:46 UTC 2014


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:01:28AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I should be back home and ready to go by Tuesday morning though ... so
> > >> if I don't get time to do it at SCALE, I will on Tuesday.
> > >>
> > > Ok so Xen 4.2.4 and Linux 3.10.32 dom0 kernel are out in the xen4centos repo now.
> > > Also upstream released Xen 4.4.0 today.
> > >
> > > In general Xen upstream supports live migrations from (current-1) to (current) version.
> > > So if we want to provide a (live) migration path from Xen 4.2.* to 4.4.* we probably
> > > should package Xen 4.3.2 first.. So people could migrate from 4.2.4 -> 4.3.2 -> 4.4.0.
> > >
> > > What do you think? 
> > >
> > > (Fedora 20 has Xen 4.3.2 rpms in the updates repo, for .spec foo, if needed).
> > >
> > 
> > Well, I would hope we can migrate from 4.2.4 to 4.4.x without requiring
> > anything in between.  Not sure if that would be possible or not.
> > 
> 
> Well I guess we just need to test that.. 
> 
> > We do need to start trying to do 4.4.x builds.
> > 
> 
> That's what we should do :)
> 
> Fedora has rpms at least for 4.4.0-rc4, not sure about the rc5/rc6 or the final.. 
> but I don't think the .spec file really needs to change between rc4 and the final.
> 

"Information for task build (f20, xen-4.4.0-0.rc4.1.fc20.src.rpm)":
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6540303

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/304/6540304/xen-4.4.0-0.rc4.1.fc20.src.rpm

-- Pasi




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