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 :( > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt