[CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS python-virtinst version issue, blktap2 problem

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 09:38:53AM -0500, Philippe-A. Lemelin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 15-01-06 09:21 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>It seems currently when you "yum update" CentOS 6.6 Xen host you end up getting python-virtinst from c6 base repo:
> >>python-virtinst-0.600.0-24.el6.noarch
> >>
> >>and not from Xen4CentOS repo, because the version there is "older": 0.600.0-19.
> >>
> >>.. which means the centos/xen-specific patch in python-virtinst is "lost". (default to tap2 instead of tap1, to make blktap2 work out-of-the-box with virt-install and virt-manager when using file based images as disks for VMs).
> >>
> >>So.. who can build a new version of python-virtinst, with the blktap2 patch applied?
> >
> >Looks like Johnny's built an updated version and placed it here:
> >
> >http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/xen4-test/
> >
> >Maybe we can leave it there for a day or so for people to test it, and
> >push it to the main xen4 repo at EOD tomorrow?
> >
> >  -George
> >
> 
> I just successfully completed the installation of a CentOS guest
> with this version of python-virtinst.
> 

Yep, it works for me too!


-- Pasi


> Thank you,
> 
> Philippe-A. Lemelin