CentOS virt - Feb 2017 - New 4.9.11-22 kernels and linux-firmware packages to test in xen-testing for CentOS-6 and CentOS-7

Hi

So far, I did some preliminary testing using nested virt:

host(L0): Fedora 25, kernel-4.9.11-200, kvm+qemu

Guest(L1): CentOS 7 Xen-4.6.3-7, kernel-4.9.11-22

So far, at least the L1 setup had no issues. I'll need to pull L1 
guest-storage from backup to test some L2 guests.

Likewise, I try to allocate two blades at work for tests on real metal. 
Our standard-tests include starting CentOS-5/6/7 guests and migrate them 
around. I hope to get this done next week, but I need company approval 
for that, which seems doable, as we use Xen4CentOS in production :)
Running diverse CentOS versions and some Windows Server guests and being 
capable of migrating the whole shebang around from machine to machine is 
our daily use case. That includes PV, HVM+PV and PVHVM guest types, 
which is pretty comprehensive to me.

Let me know, if you are interested in more detailed settings/setup/tests 
and I will see, what I can run.

Rest assured, that this work is much needed and appreciated. We run 
almost 1000 virtual machines on about 70 blades using Xen4CentOS since 
day 1. This new kernel gives us the latest drivers in Dom0, something 
which is highly desired, as we are seeing issues occasionally, like 
bnx2x oops-ing on broadcom 10G interfaces.

Regards,
Thomas

On 02/27/2017 02:00 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 02/21/2017 11:40 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> I have pushed some new kernels and linux-firmware packages to the
>> xen-testing repos for both CentOS-6 and CentOS-7.  The CentOS-7
packages
>> may take a few hours to make it to the repo.
>>
>> The CentOS-6 repo also contains a newer xfsprogs as that is required
>> with newer kernels
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314605).
>>
>> This kernel (and supplementary xfsprogs, linux-firmware) are scheduled
>> to be the replacements for the 3.18.x LTS tree that has gone EOL from
>> Kernel.org.  We can maintain the 4.9 LTS tree until January 2019
>> (https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html).
>>
>> We have added in blktap2 support to this kernel, please test that
>> functionality if you need it, it seems to be working to me.
>>
>> We really need people to test this kernel and associated packages
>> thoroughly so we can find and fix issues before release.
>>
>> Please post any issues or questions on this list.
>
> OK, just tagged 4.9.13-22.el7 (and .el6) to the testing repos for xen on
> c6 and c7 as this fixes the new dccp kernel issue.
>
> Only have one person reporting good tests so far.  We need more testing
> or we risk to breaking people's systems when we release later.
>
>
>
>
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Hello, is this kernel is also for KVM hosts? If not, will be? I use 
elrepo now...

T.Weyergraf wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> So far, I did some preliminary testing using nested virt:
>
> host(L0): Fedora 25, kernel-4.9.11-200, kvm+qemu
>
> Guest(L1): CentOS 7 Xen-4.6.3-7, kernel-4.9.11-22
>
> So far, at least the L1 setup had no issues. I'll need to pull L1
> guest-storage from backup to test some L2 guests.
>
> Likewise, I try to allocate two blades at work for tests on real
> metal. Our standard-tests include starting CentOS-5/6/7 guests and
> migrate them around. I hope to get this done next week, but I need
> company approval for that, which seems doable, as we use Xen4CentOS in
> production :)
> Running diverse CentOS versions and some Windows Server guests and
> being capable of migrating the whole shebang around from machine to
> machine is our daily use case. That includes PV, HVM+PV and PVHVM
> guest types, which is pretty comprehensive to me.
>
> Let me know, if you are interested in more detailed
> settings/setup/tests and I will see, what I can run.
>
> Rest assured, that this work is much needed and appreciated. We run
> almost 1000 virtual machines on about 70 blades using Xen4CentOS since
> day 1. This new kernel gives us the latest drivers in Dom0, something
> which is highly desired, as we are seeing issues occasionally, like
> bnx2x oops-ing on broadcom 10G interfaces.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> On 02/27/2017 02:00 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>
>> On 02/21/2017 11:40 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>> I have pushed some new kernels and linux-firmware packages to the
>>> xen-testing repos for both CentOS-6 and CentOS-7. The CentOS-7
packages
>>> may take a few hours to make it to the repo.
>>>
>>> The CentOS-6 repo also contains a newer xfsprogs as that is
required
>>> with newer kernels 
>>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314605).
>>>
>>> This kernel (and supplementary xfsprogs, linux-firmware) are
scheduled
>>> to be the replacements for the 3.18.x LTS tree that has gone EOL
from
>>> Kernel.org. We can maintain the 4.9 LTS tree until January 2019
>>> (https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html).
>>>
>>> We have added in blktap2 support to this kernel, please test that
>>> functionality if you need it, it seems to be working to me.
>>>
>>> We really need people to test this kernel and associated packages
>>> thoroughly so we can find and fix issues before release.
>>>
>>> Please post any issues or questions on this list.
>>
>>
>> OK, just tagged 4.9.13-22.el7 (and .el6) to the testing repos for xen
on
>> c6 and c7 as this fixes the new dccp kernel issue.
>>
>> Only have one person reporting good tests so far. We need more testing
>> or we risk to breaking people's systems when we release later.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> CentOS-virt mailing list
>> CentOS-virt at centos.org
>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> CentOS-virt at centos.org
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
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No, don't get that confused. As of lately, Fedora 25 has updated to 
kernel 4.9.11 as well. But this is just coincidence. This is not the 
Xen4CentOS Dom0 testing-kernel, but the package from Fedora's update 
repos. That testing kernel is used on the guest along with Xen4CentOS 
Xen hypervisor packages to make a Xen4CentOS (7) virtualization host as 
guest on kvm.

I just happen to run my workstation with Fedora+KVM. For any 
virtualization testing, I use nested virt and create Xen virtualization 
hosts as kvm guests for testing puposes.


On 02/27/2017 11:21 PM, FeldHost Admin wrote:
> Hello, is this kernel is also for KVM hosts? If not, will be? I use 
> elrepo now...
>
> T.Weyergraf wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> So far, I did some preliminary testing using nested virt:
>>
>> host(L0): Fedora 25, kernel-4.9.11-200, kvm+qemu
>>
>> Guest(L1): CentOS 7 Xen-4.6.3-7, kernel-4.9.11-22
>>
>> So far, at least the L1 setup had no issues. I'll need to pull L1
>> guest-storage from backup to test some L2 guests.
>>
>> Likewise, I try to allocate two blades at work for tests on real
>> metal. Our standard-tests include starting CentOS-5/6/7 guests and
>> migrate them around. I hope to get this done next week, but I need
>> company approval for that, which seems doable, as we use Xen4CentOS in
>> production :)
>> Running diverse CentOS versions and some Windows Server guests and
>> being capable of migrating the whole shebang around from machine to
>> machine is our daily use case. That includes PV, HVM+PV and PVHVM
>> guest types, which is pretty comprehensive to me.
>>
>> Let me know, if you are interested in more detailed
>> settings/setup/tests and I will see, what I can run.
>>
>> Rest assured, that this work is much needed and appreciated. We run
>> almost 1000 virtual machines on about 70 blades using Xen4CentOS since
>> day 1. This new kernel gives us the latest drivers in Dom0, something
>> which is highly desired, as we are seeing issues occasionally, like
>> bnx2x oops-ing on broadcom 10G interfaces.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Thomas
>>
>> On 02/27/2017 02:00 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/21/2017 11:40 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have pushed some new kernels and linux-firmware packages to
the
>>>> xen-testing repos for both CentOS-6 and CentOS-7.  The CentOS-7
>>>> packages
>>>> may take a few hours to make it to the repo.
>>>>
>>>> The CentOS-6 repo also contains a newer xfsprogs as that is
required
>>>> with newer kernels 
>>>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314605).
>>>>
>>>> This kernel (and supplementary xfsprogs, linux-firmware) are
scheduled
>>>> to be the replacements for the 3.18.x LTS tree that has gone
EOL from
>>>> Kernel.org.  We can maintain the 4.9 LTS tree until January
2019
>>>> (https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html).
>>>>
>>>> We have added in blktap2 support to this kernel, please test
that
>>>> functionality if you need it, it seems to be working to me.
>>>>
>>>> We really need people to test this kernel and associated
packages
>>>> thoroughly so we can find and fix issues before release.
>>>>
>>>> Please post any issues or questions on this list.
>>>
>>>
>>> OK, just tagged 4.9.13-22.el7 (and .el6) to the testing repos for
xen on
>>> c6 and c7 as this fixes the new dccp kernel issue.
>>>
>>> Only have one person reporting good tests so far.  We need more
testing
>>> or we risk to breaking people's systems when we release later.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> CentOS-virt mailing list
>>> CentOS-virt at centos.org
>>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> CentOS-virt mailing list
>> CentOS-virt at centos.org
>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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