On 11/03/2015 11:04 AM, George Dunlap wrote: > When we started the Virt SIG, our stated goal was to support one > recent version of Xen with a recent kernel. We updated at that time > to Xen 4.4, as the most recent stable release. We skipped 4.5; but > now with 4.6 out, I think it's about time to upgrade. > > Moving to 4.6 has several distinct advantages for CentOS 7. Xen 4.4 > has no systemd integration, while Xen 4.6 does. Additionally, Xen 4.4 > has an insufficient level of ARM support, while Xen 4.6 does. > > The Xen releases are heavily tested upstream, not only by the > open-source team, but by the vendors who build their products on Xen. > I'm fairly confident that moving forward to Xen 4.6 should be a > relatively safe maneuver for most people. > > So I shall be moving towards releasing Xen 4.6 for CentOS 6 in the not > too distant future. > > That said, the Virt SIG is a community effort -- if anyone in the > community wants to step up and maintain the Xen 4.4 packages within > the SIG, they would be welcome to do so. The burden of doing the > maintenance should not be too high. > > Security updates will continue for 4.4 until the 4.6 packages are > fully ready (and may continue for a month or two afterwards, > depending on severity, to provide a transition period). > I agree with this. The goal was always to do even numbered releases as a general rule. So moving from 4.4 to 4.6 is a great idea. I concur 100% with this approach. Obviously we will test the upgrade from 4.4.x to 4.6. > -George -------------- 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/20151103/ade51254/attachment-0003.sig>