[CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

Wed Mar 12 17:38:44 UTC 2014
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 05:18:57AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 03/11/2014 03:05 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I get a forbidden on that SRPM ... do you have a copy somewhere?
> 

Yep, here goes: http://pasik.reaktio.net/fedora/xen/xen-4.4.0-0.rc4.1.fc20.src.rpm

-- Pasi