CentOS virt - May 2015 - Experimental 3.18.12 Kernel for Xen4CentOS 6

All,

I have compiled an experimental 3.18.12 kernel from the 3.18 LTS kernel
branch from kernel.org for the Xen4Centos 6 tree.

http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/xen-kernel/x86_64/

This should be considered extremely experimental at this point and is
unsigned.

I have tested it on 2 generic servers and it worked fine on both of
those with sata and gigabit ethernet.

Please test this and provide feedback on this list and George can get
this into the virt6-testing tree and I'll release it along with the
xen-4.4.2 rpms from there. 

I would think this is the logical LTS kernel to use moving forward as
the 3.10.x LTS will be discontinued soon (in September 2015), and it has
the longest lifetime of all the LTAS choices:

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
 

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On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
wrote:
> All,
>
> I have compiled an experimental 3.18.12 kernel from the 3.18 LTS kernel
> branch from kernel.org for the Xen4Centos 6 tree.
So did you backport the blktap patches?

 -George

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
wrote:
> All,
>
> I have compiled an experimental 3.18.12 kernel from the 3.18 LTS kernel
> branch from kernel.org for the Xen4Centos 6 tree.
>
> http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/xen-kernel/x86_64/
>
> This should be considered extremely experimental at this point and is
> unsigned.
>
> I have tested it on 2 generic servers and it worked fine on both of
> those with sata and gigabit ethernet.
>
> Please test this and provide feedback on this list and George can get
> this into the virt6-testing tree and I'll release it along with the
> xen-4.4.2 rpms from there.
>
> I would think this is the logical LTS kernel to use moving forward as
> the 3.10.x LTS will be discontinued soon (in September 2015), and it has
> the longest lifetime of all the LTAS choices:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
>
are you using same .config as centos kernel does + xen options ?


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Itamar Reis Peixoto

On 05/06/2015 09:33 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I have compiled an experimental 3.18.12 kernel from the 3.18 LTS kernel
>> branch from kernel.org for the Xen4Centos 6 tree.
> 
> So did you backport the blktap patches?
> 
Yes, I did use the blktap 2.5 stuff from the other kernel.


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