CentOS virt - May 2015 - Xen 4.4.2 (with XSA-132) in virt6-testing

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Pasi K?rkk?inen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 05:09:56PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> > I've got Xen 4.4.2 in virt6-testing.  I haven't had a chance
to test
> > it, and won't for another week or two; but if some volunteers can
put
> > it through its paces, I can ask Johnny to push it to the public repo
> > sometome early next week.
> >
>
> Great! Thanks a lot.
>
> I'll do some testing during the weekend.
>
> > Thanks,
> >  -George
>
>
> -- Pasi
>
I've upgraded to Xen 4.4.2 and everything went fine. I've tested
save/restore and few basic stuff, all good.

[root at dev1 ~]# uname -r && xl info|grep xen_version
4.0.1-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
xen_version            : 4.4.2-1.el6
[root at dev1 ~]#

Note; I'm using kernel-ml from elrepo because x4c kernel is too old LTS for
me.

Karl
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On 05/04/2015 02:31 PM, Karl Johnson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Pasi K?rkk?inen <pasik at iki.fi
> <mailto:pasik at iki.fi>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 05:09:56PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>     > I've got Xen 4.4.2 in virt6-testing.  I haven't had a
chance to test
>     > it, and won't for another week or two; but if some volunteers
can put
>     > it through its paces, I can ask Johnny to push it to the public
repo
>     > sometome early next week.
>     >
> 
>     Great! Thanks a lot.
> 
>     I'll do some testing during the weekend.
> 
>     > Thanks,
>     >  -George
> 
> 
>     -- Pasi
> 
> 
> I've upgraded to Xen 4.4.2 and everything went fine. I've tested
> save/restore and few basic stuff, all good.
> 
> [root at dev1 ~]# uname -r && xl info|grep xen_version
> 4.0.1-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
> xen_version            : 4.4.2-1.el6
> [root at dev1 ~]#
> 
> Note; I'm using kernel-ml from elrepo because x4c kernel is too old LTS
> for me.
> 
> Karl
WRT a new kernel .. the 3.18.x kernel has been selected to be maintained
as an LTS until Jan 2017.  I think we should start work on rebuilding
this kernel and using it in the x4c projects.

https://lwn.net/Articles/636289/

Thoughts?

I will grab this kernel and try to roll in all the patches, etc. and see
if I can make it work.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

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On 05/04/2015 02:31 PM, Karl Johnson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Pasi K?rkk?inen <pasik at iki.fi
> <mailto:pasik at iki.fi>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 05:09:56PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>     > I've got Xen 4.4.2 in virt6-testing.  I haven't had a
chance to test
>     > it, and won't for another week or two; but if some volunteers
can put
>     > it through its paces, I can ask Johnny to push it to the public
repo
>     > sometome early next week.
>     >
> 
>     Great! Thanks a lot.
> 
>     I'll do some testing during the weekend.
> 
>     > Thanks,
>     >  -George
> 
> 
>     -- Pasi
> 
> 
> I've upgraded to Xen 4.4.2 and everything went fine. I've tested
> save/restore and few basic stuff, all good.
> 
> [root at dev1 ~]# uname -r && xl info|grep xen_version
> 4.0.1-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
> xen_version            : 4.4.2-1.el6
> [root at dev1 ~]#
> 
> Note; I'm using kernel-ml from elrepo because x4c kernel is too old LTS
> for me.
Karl,

Note:  We use a non released version of blktap (version 2.5) from the
xen maintainers .. I don't think the blktap (if it even exists) in the
main line kernels will work properly.  But, I could be wrong .. George
or Lars, what do you think.

There are other devices that can be used, so obviously that kernel can
still work, since you are using it now :)

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes


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