[CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy
Steven Haigh
netwiz at crc.id.au
Fri Dec 13 12:41:09 UTC 2019
The latest bunch of test packages are available here:
http://au1.mirror.crc.id.au/repo/el8/x86_64/
Hopefully, as of a few hours ago, this set should actually install.
Currently, networking won't work as they require brctl - which isn't in
EL8. I've written patches for this, but they'll probably end up being
part of a cleanup of everything in /etc/xen/scripts/
Problem is, they're probably too late for the 4.13.0 release - so I'll
have to carry them myself for a while until they hit the git staging
area within Xen.
I don't have a kernel capable of being a Dom0 as yet - so that's still
at a roll your own or obtain elsewhere status.
The source for all this is here:
https://git.crc.id.au/netwiz/xen413
Yes, I take patches.
Steven Haigh
📧 netwiz at crc.id.au 💻 https://www.crc.id.au
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:11, Christoph <mangel at gmx.de> wrote:
> hi
>
> if you need someone to test the centos8 pkgs, Im interested :)
>
> ---
> ------
> Greetz
>
> Am 13.12.2019 01:31, schrieb Steven Haigh:
>> On 2019-12-13 04:54, Kevin Stange wrote:
>>> I don't want to burden Steven Haigh any, but I wonder if there's a
>>> way
>>> we could combine some of our efforts to make both "Xen made easy!"
>>> and
>>> the Virt SIG Xen easier to manage.
>>
>> I've been thinking about this for a while. The problem has been the
>> workflows between myself and the SIG are so far apart, its hard to
>> look at how to merge them.
>>
>> I have full CI between my own git and packages to the mirrors - which
>> is good, but has its down sides. I also don't have the restrictions
>> of
>> the CentOS build system to deal with - which is great for my workflow
>> ;)
>>
>> I'm prepping packages for CentOS 8 now - but its exposing quite a
>> number of problems around the main toolsets for Xen - and instead of
>> just adding my own patch and moving on (ala Fedora's Xen packages),
>> I'm trying to get fixes in upstream where possible.
>>
>> My todo list currently includes:
>> 1) Replace all #! that include env python to a specific python
>> version/binary. ie /usr/bin/python or /usr/bin/python3. The configure
>> portions of this are complete, but the scripts need to be altered to
>> have the detected python version populated.
>>
>> 2) There's no brctl in CentOS 8. The network scripts need to be
>> re-written to use 'ip' instead. To maintain compatibility, the
>> network
>> scripts need to support both brctl and ip commands and use whichever
>> is present on the system.
>>
>> 3) UEFI support needs to be tested. The preferred UEFI boot method
>> for
>> Dom0 is to use grub to then boot Xen - but this needs to be tested.
>>
>> So while me moving to try and get these fixed upstream is great - it
>> should make everyone's job easier in the long term. Although I have
>> the same problem as the SIG - there's just not enough people to test
>> /
>> patch stuff. The more we deep dive into 4.13, the further away I can
>> see the release happening :(
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