[CentOS-virt] Beta CentOS 7 Xen packages available

Wed Jun 17 14:24:45 UTC 2015
George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu>

At long last, I'd like to announce beta packages for CentOS 7,
available from the community build system.

Start by installing the centos-release-xen:

rpm -ivh http://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt7-xen-44-testing/x86_64/os/Packages/centos-release-xen-7-3.el7.x86_64.rpm

This will set up yum repositories for both the eventual release
repositories (enabled by default), and the community build system
repositories (disabled by default).

At the moment, all packages will be stored in the virt-xen-44-testing
repository.  You can either enable this by default by editing
/etc/yum.repos.d/VirtSIG-Xen.repo, or by adding
"--enablerepo=virt-xen-44-testing".

If you want, you can edit defaults /etc/sysconfig/xen-kernel

Next, run 'yum update' to get the new kernel:

yum --enablerepo=virt-xen-44-testing update kernel

Now install xen:

yum --enablerepo=virt-xen-44-testing install xen

This should grab both xen and the updated kernel package.  It should
also automatically:
* Add default commandline parameters for Xen and Linux when booting under Xen
* Arrange for xen to come up first in the grub
* Set the default boot entry to Xen.

That's it!  Reboot and you should be good to go.

Libvirt packages aren't available yet but should be on the way soon
(I'll announce them here.)

Please report any problems or feedback to this list.

 -George