[CentOS] Xen-Version in CentOS 5.3?

Wed Dec 3 14:41:45 UTC 2008
Greg Bailey <gbailey at lxpro.com>

Dirk H. Schulz wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I tried to find out what xen version upstream intends to use in 5.3, but 
> did not find anything.
>
> So now I hope that there is some secret knowledge among the CentOS people 
> you could share? :-)
>
> Any hint or link would be helpful. Thanks in advance,
>
> Dirk
>   

Well, glancing at the RHN beta channel for RHEL 5.3, I see xen-3.0.3-73 
with the following changelog entries since xen-3.0.3-64:

2008-09-19 22:00:00
Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.0.3-73.el5:
- Fix xenstat corruption when a domain shuts down (rhbz #251743)
- Fix selinux labelling if xenstored is on tmpfs (rhbz #462702)
- Clear out stale NVRAM files on ia64 (rhbz #358321)
- Allow use of tap:aio for HVM guests emulated devices + pv drivers 
(rhbz #362401)

 

2008-09-08 22:00:00
Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.0.3-72.el5:
- Fix network for ia64 HVM guests with > 3gb RAM (rhbz #453114)
- Add e1000 emulation (rhbz #344861)
- Fix network-bridge script VLAN handling (rhbz #337651)
- Use largepages for HVM guests (rhbz #445663)
- Fix xm network-attach docs (rhbz #440274)
- Fix xm shutdown --wait, when using domid (rhbz #442755)

 

2008-09-01 22:00:00
Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com> - 3.0.3-71.el5:
- Support for attaching more than 16 xvd devices to guest domains (rhbz 
#456392)
- Don't clobber the wallclock during restore (rhbz #426861)

 

2008-08-18 22:00:00
Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> - 3.0.3-70.el5:
- Support booting bzImage xen pv_ops kernels (e.g. Fedora 10) (rhbz #457199)

 

2008-08-07 22:00:00
Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.0.3-69.el5:
- Fix reading of xenstore PID in initscript (rhbz #446089)

 

2008-07-21 22:00:00
Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.0.3-67.el5:
- Persist device model PID across restarts (rhbz #280611)
- Pass internal libxc return value back to caller (rhbz #414391)
- Fix passing of domid to libxc from python IOport & IRQ controllers 
(rhbz #432376)
- Don't try to balloon more than physical RAM (rhbz #280881)
- Add blktap sub-type checks (rhbz #444413)
- Respect nographics request for HVM (rhbz #230841)
- Put xenstored database on tmpfs (rhbz #446089)
- Prefer grub.conf in pygrub (rhbz #234486)
- Don't throw errors when listing domains (rhbz #238833)
- Add mouse wheel support to PVFB (rhbz #250401)

 

2008-07-21 22:00:00
Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.0.3-68.el5:
- Rotate all log files periodically (rhbz #422271)
- Fix overflow in qemu-img (rhbz #437086)
- Fix race in DMA thread (rhbz #250988)
- Fix blktap data access alignment (rhbz #253884)
- Don't unpause domain after taking core (rhbz #442698)

 

2008-05-21 22:00:00
Markus Armbruster <armbru at redhat.com> - 3.0.3-66.el5:
- Correctly limit PVFB size CVE-2008-1952 (rhbz #447761)
- Disable QEMU USB disk image format auto-detection CVE-2008-1945 (rhbz 
#445846)

 

2008-05-08 22:00:00
Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.0.3-65.el5:
- Remove blktap sharing patch which prevents guests with large
numbers of disks booting (rhbz #445476)

Is that what you were looking for?

-Greg