CentOS virt - Sep 2015 - CentOS 7 Xen 4.4.3 packages available for in virt7-xen-44-testing

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Pasi K?rkk?inen <pasik at iki.fi>
wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 01:46:36PM +0300, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
>>
>> OK. I can now see the libvirt 1.2.15-3.el7 rpms in the
virt7-xen-44-testing repo,
>> but it seems yum still doesn't pick them up:
>>
>> # yum clean all
>> # yum --enablerepo=virt-xen-44-testing update
>> ..
>> No packages marked for update
>>
>> # rpm -qa | grep -i libvirt-daemon-1
>> libvirt-daemon-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
>>
>>
>> I guess I'll install those 1.2.15-3.el7 rpms manually.
>>
>
> It seems now the packages installed OK using yum aswell. I guess you or
someone refreshed the repo :)
Updating the repos isn't actually triggered -- there's a script that
runs every 10 minutes.  So if you get old data, try again in 10
minutes or so. :-)
> Anyway, here's something I noticed while testing xend bits:
>
> # systemctl enable xend.service
> xend.service is not a native service, redirecting to /sbin/chkconfig.
> Executing /sbin/chkconfig xend on
> The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled
> using systemctl.
> Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
> 1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another
unit's
>    .wants/ or .requires/ directory.
> 2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which
has
>    a requirement dependency on it.
> 3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer,
>    D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
>
>
> "systemctl start xend.service" works OK though.. and after that
xm works too.
Right -- I haven't tried xend under systemd.  Given that xend is gone
in 4.6, I'm considering whether to say "patches welcome" re fixing
xend in 4.4 for C7...

 -George

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:08:12PM +0100, George Dunlap
wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, here's something I noticed while testing xend bits:
> >
> > # systemctl enable xend.service
> > xend.service is not a native service, redirecting to /sbin/chkconfig.
> > Executing /sbin/chkconfig xend on
> > The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be
enabled
> > using systemctl.
> > Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
> > 1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another
unit's
> >    .wants/ or .requires/ directory.
> > 2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit
which has
> >    a requirement dependency on it.
> > 3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path,
timer,
> >    D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
> >
> >
> > "systemctl start xend.service" works OK though.. and after
that xm works too.
> 
> Right -- I haven't tried xend under systemd.  Given that xend is gone
> in 4.6, I'm considering whether to say "patches welcome" re
fixing
> xend in 4.4 for C7...
> 
I'll try to investigate.. 


Thanks,

-- Pasi

>  -George

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 08:51:37PM +0300, Pasi K?rkk?inen
wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:08:12PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyway, here's something I noticed while testing xend bits:
> > >
> > > # systemctl enable xend.service
> > > xend.service is not a native service, redirecting to
/sbin/chkconfig.
> > > Executing /sbin/chkconfig xend on
> > > The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to
be enabled
> > > using systemctl.
> > > Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
> > > 1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from
another unit's
> > >    .wants/ or .requires/ directory.
> > > 2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other
unit which has
> > >    a requirement dependency on it.
> > > 3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket,
path, timer,
> > >    D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
> > >
> > >
> > > "systemctl start xend.service" works OK though.. and
after that xm works too.
> > 
> > Right -- I haven't tried xend under systemd.  Given that xend is
gone
> > in 4.6, I'm considering whether to say "patches welcome"
re fixing
> > xend in 4.4 for C7...
> > 
> 
> I'll try to investigate.. 
> 
Actually it seems those were "warnings" only.. xend does start
automatically now on centos7.
So it's not a problem really.


Thanks,

-- Pasi