CentOS virt - May 2014 - Xen DomU supoprt in RHEL 7 and the CentOS Plan

Hi Guys,

so far, in rhel7rc its pretty clear that Xen instances ( domUs ) are not
going to boot with the RHEL7rc kernel. Also, i think at this point its a
safe bet that these things wont change to GA - no way to accertain that,
but its a safe bet ).

Wondering if someone has looked into what the challenges might be to
enable this support, and then what the options are to deliver this support ?

If we can get the stuff staged up, we can work it during the Distro QA
stages and target ( potentially ) a in-sync release for Xen support when
CentOS7 goes GA

- KB

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On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 13:19 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> so far, in rhel7rc its pretty clear that Xen instances ( domUs ) are not
> going to boot with the RHEL7rc kernel.
Why not?  Are not KVM and XEN major, and serious business, parts of the
RHEL/Centos experience?


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Karanbir Singh wrote on Fri, 23 May 2014 13:19:45 +0100:
> so far, in rhel7rc its pretty clear that Xen instances ( domUs ) are not
> going to boot with the RHEL7rc kernel.
What a pity. Not to mention Dom0.
> Wondering if someone has looked into what the challenges might be to
> enable this support, and then what the options are to deliver this support
?
I'm sorry, I haven't yet, not even tested RHEL7rc. I just want to raise
my
hand and say, yes, I would like to have xen support if you can make it happen 
without too many hooplas. But I won't be able to help much.

Kai

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On 23/05/14 13:19, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> so far, in rhel7rc its pretty clear that Xen instances ( domUs ) are not
> going to boot with the RHEL7rc kernel. Also, i think at this point its a
> safe bet that these things wont change to GA - no way to accertain that,
> but its a safe bet ).
Why do you say that? My minimal testing of the rc doesn't show any 
problems installing on Xen 4.4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 (Maipo)
Kernel 3.10.0-121.el7.x86_64 on an x86_64

localhost login: root
Password:
[root at localhost ~]# mount -t xenfs none /proc/xen
[root at localhost ~]# cat /proc/xen/capabilities
[root at localhost ~]#


Simon