On 01/06/2015 09:01 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/06/2015 08:54 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 12/15/2014 12:24 PM, George Dunlap wrote: >>> At long last, I've got some beta CentOS 6 4.4.1 packages up on the CBS. >>> >>> Major updates include: >>> * Update to Xen 4.4.1. Also includes all XSAs through 114 >>> * Update to latest blktap 2.5 >>> * Updated libvirt packages (1.2.10), which work well with libxl >>> >>> To use, add the following to a file in /etc/yum.repos.d: >>> >>> [virt-testing] >>> name=CentOS-$releasever - virt-testing >>> baseurl=http://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt6-testing/$basearch/os/ >>> gpgcheck=0 >>> enabled=1 >>> >>> Notes: >>> * git repo with all the changes to xen can be found here: >>> https://github.com/gwd/sig-virt-xen out/virt6/update-4.4.1-4 >>> >>> * The signing infrastructure is not in place, so the binaries are not signed. >>> >>> * xend is now disabled by default. You can enable it by running >>> chkconfig. xend has been removed from the tree entirely in Xen 4.5, >>> so this should (hopefully) serve as a "wake-up-call" for people to >>> begin the transition over to xend. >>> >>> * A lot have things have changed -- please to test this so we can get >>> a good idea what may have broken. >>> >>> -George >> >> George, >> >> I don't mind if xend is on or off, but the virt-manager (virt-install, >> etc.) that is included with the current xen4 tree will not work at all >> with libxl. >> >> We therefore do not have a GUI front end that can do libxl at this time. >> >> I might suggest leaving xend on for 4.4.x and we stabilize on 4.4.x on >> the production branch, and then start a testing branch that will be 4.5 >> (or newer) with a newer libvirt, virt-manager, qemu, etc. >> >> I thought maybe a new kernel as well, but based on this: >> >> https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html >> >> It seems 3.10.x (at Sept 2016) is the best LTS kernel for support purposes. > > So, I can't read :) .. 3.10.x stops in Sept 2016 ARGH /// 2015 /// can't read OR type it seems > > Looks like jumping to 3.14.x would be required at some point, might as > well try to do that in the testing branch as well. > > Thanks, > JOhnny Hughes > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >
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