On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote: > 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: Those kinds of dependencies are automatically generated by rpmbuild based on the linkages of the actual libraries. I agree it would be nice to minimize the dependencies; but that would take someone sitting down and figuring out which features / components / libraries / whatever were causing the dependencies, and either disabling them or moving them to a separate package. I don't have time to do that at the moment; but I would be happy to help someone else do so, and review pull requests to the xen package repos at https://github.com/CentOS-virt7/xen. -George