similar to: moving the Xen4CentOS repo Kernel to 3.10.x

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

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > 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

The domU is using pygrub to boot its own 2.6.18.8-xen kernel. It can be booted successfully under 2.6.18.8-xen dom0 and xen 3.3.1. However when upgrade dom0 to 2.6.32.15 and xen 4.0.1-rc3-pre, the domU can not boot with tapdisk. I am wondering it is something related to the blktap driver. *When using tap:aio:* PATH/disk.img in domU disk configuration, the boot process hanged at a prompt: XENBUS:

The domU is using pygrub to boot its own 2.6.18.8-xen kernel. It can be booted successfully under 2.6.18.8-xen dom0 and xen 3.3.1. However when upgrade dom0 to 2.6.32.15 and xen 4.0.1-rc3-pre, the domU can not boot with tapdisk. I am wondering it is something related to the blktap driver. *When using tap:aio:* PATH/disk.img in domU disk configuration, the boot process hanged at a prompt: XENBUS:

hi, i''m trying move from file: based disk to tap:aio but things don''t work i have centos4 dom0 with centos4 domU xen 3.0.4-testing changeset: 13138:d401cb96d8a0 self compiled [root@xen linux-2.6.16.38-xen]# grep XEN_BLKDEV_TAP .config CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_TAP=m config disk = [ ''file:/var/lib/xen/test.img,hda1,w'',

On 05/06/2015 09:27 AM, George Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: >> 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/

I installed CentOS6 with the xen4centos set of packages; then I tried to install KVM (for performance comparison), I got the following error in YUM: --> Processing Dependency: /usr/share/gpxe/e1000-0x100e.rom for package: 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.4.x86_64 Package gpxe-roms-qemu is obsoleted by ipxe-roms-qemu, but obsoleting package does not provide for requirements I manually

Hi all On 07/07/2015 10:30 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 07/07/2015 12:20 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: [.... loads of stuff deleted .... ] >> OH .. I see, I did not get the firmware files, but their git pointer info :) >> >> I will rebuild and repost. >> > Please try the packages that are now in the same location. > >

Thanks to work from Johnny, linux 3.18.12 with all the x4c blktap goodness have been built and are now in the virt6-testing repo. I've also uploaded libvirt 1.2.15. As you may have seen earlier today, virt6-testing also includes an updated 4.4.2 package with the latest security update (XSA-133). The kernel has had some basic testing (by myself, Johnny, and another community member), but

Hi all, Looking to move from VMware to Xen4CentOS. We currently run Centos7 as our servers main distort. All the documentation I?ve found on the Xen4CentOS only refers to Centos6. Do any of you know if it currently or is being developed to work with Centos7? thanks in advance

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 Sat, May 16, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 05/13/2015 01:14 PM, George Dunlap wrote: >> Thanks to work from Johnny, linux 3.18.12 with all the x4c blktap >> goodness have been built and are now in the virt6-testing repo. I've >> also uploaded libvirt 1.2.15. As you may have seen earlier today, >> virt6-testing also

KB and I were looking at repositories to import into git.centos.org recently, and we found the e1000e package -- a rebuild of the Intel e1000 driver for the x4c kernel. Does anyone know if this externally-build module is still necesssary for Linux 3.10? Or for Linux 3.14, which we're planning on moving to at some point in the near future? -George

Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS kernel panic on dom0 reboot On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:17 AM, David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com>wrote: > > On 05/03/14 15:09, Karl Johnson wrote: > > > I've been using Xen4CentOS for the last 3 months. It's working fine and > > > dom0/domUs are stable but the server does a kernel panic when doing a > > >

I''m getting this message (subject line) in daemon.log every time I start or restart xend. I''m not sure if this is related to the fact that I cannot boot up my Windows domU from a VHD file. The Windows domU was working fine with Xen 4.0.0 (with 2.6.32.14 dom0 kernel). When I upgraded to Xen 4.0.1-rc4 (with 2.6.32.16 dom0 kernel), I can no long boot the Windows domU from VHD. The

I think this may have been asked before, but what would it take to get debuginfo packages built for the Xen4CentOS kernels? If it's just a patch for kernel.spec file that nobody has gotten around to, what is the best starting place for making that patch? Thanks, Sarah

As promised, in preparation for next week's SIG meeting, here's a kick-off discussion about the Virtualization SIG roadmap. I'm mainly tossing out ideas here -- see this is an invitation to discussion. Key things I think should be on the roadmap: * Release process - General cadence - Estimate of the next release (if any) * Specification of targets - Right now, mainly xen4centos

By default, /var/lib/xenstored is mounted tmpfs in centos 5 but this doesn't appear to be true for Xen4CentOS. This can cause performance issues as mentioned in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446089 I'm not sure if this should be part of xencommons, but if not, adding a tmpfs mount should probably be documented on the quick start wiki page. Thanks, Sarah

I have released to the master mirror the following packages for Xen4CentOS: b518e3b0fd4f735b34d7784815793cb787283d9029776bd9794cedeb274b9204 kernel-3.18.21-16.el6.x86_64.rpm 4b17373a0ef6806b26d02eb87fc299020beb60b6e31ed08a9c57d30a1410fbe7 kernel-devel-3.18.21-16.el6.x86_64.rpm cacedf6771849f7525145ad4ed7d36a2cad5b49b546173bb7c132b236cb7ac49 kernel-doc-3.18.21-16.el6.noarch.rpm

Hi, I am running XEN 4.1 on Debian 6 and I cannot find blktapctrl process running. xend is started. I installed XEN from 4.1 source following instructions here: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen4.0 Should there be a blktapctrl process running in this version? The problem I have encountered is that I can create a domain on a raw disk image but