On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 02:09:41PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 03/10/2014 12:55 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:26:04AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >>>>>> 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 > >>>> I am OK with either path, although my understanding is 4.2 => 4.4 as well. > >>>> > >>> Yep. Let's see when Xen 4.4 gets released. > >>> > >>> Shall we start with the first step, which is upgrading to Xen 4.2.4? :) > >>> > >> I am getting ready to shutdown my machine and pack it up to head out for > >> the airport right now, to go to Scale12x: > >> > >> http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale12x > >> > >> 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. -- Pasi