Re: Xen updates / TODO

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On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 06:10:41AM -0800, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 02/19/2014 03:51 AM, David Vrabel wrote:
> > On 18/02/14 20:54, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 07:19:07PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> >>> On 02/18/2014 04:43 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> A couple of TODO items/suggestions:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1) Xen 4.2.4 was just released:
> >>>>    http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg01624.html
> >>>>
> >>>>    I think we should first update Xen4Centos6 rpms to Xen 4.2.4 
> >>>>    to have a "known good" release from the stable branch currently in use in Xen4Centos6.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 2) After that, we should start packaging/testing Xen 4.3.2:
> >>>>    http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg01622.html
> >>>>
> >>>>    Xen 4.3 brings much improved XL toolstack in addition to a lot of other changes/fixes.    
> >>>
> >>> my understanding was that we might skip 4.3, and rebase from 4.2 to 4.4
> >>> once that hits the released path
> >>>
> >> Hmm, I'm not sure if skipping 4.3 is a good idea.. 
> >>
> >> I believe the following distros/products are (or will be) shipping Xen 4.3:
> >>
> >> - Next version of XenServer
> > We have been testing the 4.4 RCs in XenServer and it is likely that we
> > will switch to using 4.4 soon after its release.
> >
> 
> David,
> 
> Is this the proper qemu-xen snapshot to use for xen-4.2.4 ?
> 
> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=qemu-upstream-4.2-testing.git;a=commit;h=6d17c397dfadb29e641d5da1eb3381d240decedc
> 

It seems to have the qemu-xen-4.2.4 tag, so yes, it's the one.
You can also always fetch the xen 4.2.4 tarball and compare to it (it includes the qemu bits aswell).


> Do we need any other patches in that?
> 

Not that i'm aware of.. did we have any extra qemu patches on top of 4.2.3 ? 


> Also, we are currently using
> blktap-9960138790b9d3610b12acd153bba20235efa4f5.tar.gz .. is that still
> the best version to use?
> 

David has to answer that..


-- Pasi

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