[CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen 4.4.1 packages available on virt6-testing

[Johnny Hughes]

On 01/06/2015 09:01 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 01/06/2015 08:54 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 12/15/2014 12:24 PM, George Dunlap wrote:
>>> At long last, I've got some beta CentOS 6 4.4.1 packages up on the CBS.
>>>
>>> Major updates include:
>>> * Update to Xen 4.4.1. Also includes all XSAs through 114
>>> * Update to latest blktap 2.5
>>> * Updated libvirt packages (1.2.10), which work well with libxl
>>>
>>> To use, add the following to a file in /etc/yum.repos.d:
>>>
>>> [virt-testing]
>>> name=CentOS-$releasever - virt-testing
>>> baseurl=http://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt6-testing/$basearch/os/
>>> gpgcheck=0
>>> enabled=1
>>>
>>> Notes:
>>> * git repo with all the changes to xen can be found here:
>>>  https://github.com/gwd/sig-virt-xen out/virt6/update-4.4.1-4
>>>
>>> * The signing infrastructure is not in place, so the binaries are not signed.
>>>
>>> * xend is now disabled by default.  You can enable it by running
>>> chkconfig.  xend has been removed from the tree entirely in Xen 4.5,
>>> so this should (hopefully) serve as a "wake-up-call" for people to
>>> begin the transition over to xend.
>>>
>>> * A lot have things have changed -- please to test this so we can get
>>> a good idea what may have broken.
>>>
>>>  -George
>>
>> George,
>>
>> I don't mind if xend is on or off, but the virt-manager (virt-install,
>> etc.) that is included with the current xen4 tree will not work at all
>> with libxl.
>>
>> We therefore do not have a GUI front end that can do libxl at this time.
>>
>> I might suggest leaving xend on for 4.4.x and we stabilize on 4.4.x on
>> the production branch, and then start a testing branch that will be 4.5
>> (or newer) with a newer libvirt, virt-manager, qemu, etc.
>>
>> I thought maybe a new kernel as well, but based on this:
>>
>> https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
>>
>> It seems 3.10.x (at Sept 2016) is the best LTS kernel for support purposes.
> 
> So, I can't read :) .. 3.10.x stops in Sept 2016

ARGH /// 2015 /// can't read OR type it seems

> 
> Looks like jumping to 3.14.x would be required at some point, might as
> well try to do that in the testing branch as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> JOhnny Hughes
> 
> 
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