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. Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20150106/9954b989/attachment-0002.sig>