[CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 01/14/2016 06:57 PM, George Dunlap wrote:
> As mentioned yesterday, Xen 4.6 packages are now available for
> testing.  These also include an update to libvirt 1.3.0, in line with
> what's available for CentOS 7.  Please test, particularly the upgrade
> if you can, and report any problems here.
>
> To upgrade:
>
> yum update --enablerepo=centos-virt-xen-testing
>
> To install from scratch:
>
> * Install centos-release-xen from centos-extras
>
> yum install centos-release-xen
>
> * Update to get the new kernel:
>
> yum update
>
> * Install the Xen packages from the centos-virt-xen-testing repo:
>
> yum install --enablerepo=centos-virt-xen-testing xen
>
> Keep in mind that there is still a bug in the upstream CentOS
> new-kernel script which for some people consistently fails to add an
> "initird" line to the Xen boot stanza.  Check /boot/grub/grub.conf;
> the Xen stanza should look something like this:
>
> title CentOS (3.18.21-17.el6.x86_64)
>      root (hd0,0)
>      kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=1024M,max:1024M cpuinfo com1=115200,8n1
> console=com1,tty loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all
>      module /vmlinuz-3.18.21-17.el6.x86_64 ro
> root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD
> rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=auto
> rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM rhgb
> quiet
>      module /initramfs-3.18.21-17.el6.x86_64.img
>
>
>   -George
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS-virt mailing list
> CentOS-virt at centos.org
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Hello

     I've attempted to upgrade today to xen 4.6 ( because of something 
which seems to be a reincarnation of 
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-01/msg02259.html ) and 
I noticed that the new xen-runtime package tries to bring in a whole 
bunch of other packages:


Installing for dependencies:
  atk x86_64 1.30.0-1.el6 base 195 k
  avahi-libs x86_64 0.6.25-15.el6 base 55 k
  cairo x86_64 1.8.8-6.el6_6 base 309 k
  cups-libs x86_64 1:1.4.2-72.el6 base 321 k
  fontconfig x86_64 2.8.0-5.el6 base 186 k
  freetype x86_64 2.3.11-15.el6_6.1 base 361 k
  gdk-pixbuf2 x86_64 2.24.1-6.el6_7 updates 501 k
  gtk2 x86_64 2.24.23-6.el6 base 3.2 M
  hicolor-icon-theme noarch 0.11-1.1.el6 base 40 k
  jasper-libs x86_64 1.900.1-16.el6_6.3 base 137 k
  libXcomposite x86_64 0.4.3-4.el6 base 20 k
  libXcursor x86_64 1.1.14-2.1.el6 base 28 k
  libXft x86_64 2.3.1-2.el6 base 55 k
  libXi x86_64 1.7.2-2.2.el6 base 37 k
  libXinerama x86_64 1.1.3-2.1.el6 base 13 k
  libXrandr x86_64 1.4.1-2.1.el6 base 23 k
  libXrender x86_64 0.9.8-2.1.el6 base 24 k
  libthai x86_64 0.1.12-3.el6 base 183 k
  libtiff x86_64 3.9.4-10.el6_5 base 343 k
  pango x86_64 1.28.1-10.el6 base 351 k


Is this really needed ?

     wolfy