[CentOS] What is the REAL version of Xen in 5.1?

Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com
Mon Dec 17 19:55:56 UTC 2007


Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 
> On Dec 17, 2007 7:49 AM, Ross S. W. Walker 
> <rwalker at medallion.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a 5.1 system with Xen installed. The package says 
> 3.0.3, but an 'xm
> > info' shows 3.1.
> >
> >  So what is it? Is it 3.0.3 patched to 3.1 or is it 3.1 
> packaged as 3.0.3?
> > And if it's the former, does anybody have any idea why 
> upstream wouldn't
> > just deploy 3.1 (now 3.1.2) which is more stable?
> >
> 
> It is 3.0.3 with patches that would have been 3.0.4 but became 3.1.
> when 5.0 was being put together.
> 
> The 3.1.x might occur as a technology preview in 5.2 but only after
> making sure that an overnight update isnt going to break someones 10k
> Xen box hosting site.

Thanks for the confirmation.

I hope they move it forward a little quicker then that it's already
kind of dated now and it could use some of the memory management fixes
in the 3.1.x branch.

-Ross

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