similar to: Xen Version update policy

On 11/28/19 12:12 PM, George Dunlap wrote: > Hey all, > > This mail has been a long time in coming, but with the upcoming > expiration of security support for Xen 4.8, it's time to start thinking > about what our update policy will be for the Xen packages in general. > > Citrix is committed to officially supporting one Xen version at a time > through the CentOS Virt

On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 5:08 PM Kevin Stange <kevin at steadfast.net> wrote: > By supporting only even numbered releases as is the case now, it has not > been possible to do hot migration based upgrades which means that we > have to do full reboots of our entire environment every so often. Right > now we're running on Xen 4.8 and transitioning to 4.12 directly. We >

Xen 4.4.4 along with kernel 4.9.44 containing patches for XSAs (226 - 230) from August 15th are now available in centos-virt-testing. If possible, please test and provide feedback here so we can move these to release soon. XSA-228 did not affect Xen 4.4 XSA-229 only applies to the kernel XSA-235 disclosed today only affects ARM and isn't going to be added to these packages. Thanks. --

On 03/16/2017 04:22 PM, Kevin Stange wrote: >> I still can't rest assured the NIC issue is fixed, but no 4.4 or 4.9 >> server has yet had a NIC issue, with some being up almost a full month. >> It looks promising! (I'm knocking on all the wood everywhere, though.) > > I'm ready to call this conclusive. The problems I was having across the > board seemed to

Hello, Are XSA-289 and XSA-274/CVE-2018-14678 fixed with Xen recent 4.8, 4.10 and kernel 4.9.177 packages ? Thank you

Hi, I am very sorry to do this on short notice, but obviously Meltdown and Spectre are a lot more than anyone was really expecting to come down the pipeline. Xen 4.4 has been EOL upstream for about a year now and I have personally been reviewing and backporting patches based on the 4.5 versions made available upstream. Given that 4.5 is now also reaching EOL, backporting to 4.4 will become

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:29:39PM +0800, -=X.L.O.R.D=- wrote: > Kevin Stange, > It can be either kernel or update the NIC driver or firmware of the NIC > card. Hope that helps! > > Xlord > -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS-virt [mailto:centos-virt-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Kevin > Stange > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:04 AM > To: centos-virt

On 03/21/2017 07:48 AM, PJ Welsh wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Ricardo J. Barberis > <ricardo at palmtx.com.ar <mailto:ricardo at palmtx.com.ar>> wrote: > > El Lunes 20/03/2017, PJ Welsh escribi?: > > Still just starts the kernel and wihtin 4 seconds reboots with 4.9.16-24. > > Thanks > > PJ > > Edit grub's entry

Hi is there a reason why xen 4.11 isnt released for centos7 (I cant find it on http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/virt/)? -- ------ Greetz

On 11/02/17 06:29, Kevin Stange wrote: > On 01/30/2017 06:41 PM, Kevin Stange wrote: >> On 01/30/2017 06:12 PM, Adi Pircalabu wrote: >>> On 31/01/17 10:49, Kevin Stange wrote: >>>> You said 3.x kernels specifically. The kernel on Xen Made Easy now is a >>>> 4.4 kernel. Any chance you have tested with that one? >>> >>> Not yet, however

On 01/26/2017 09:32 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/25/2017 11:49 AM, Kevin Stange wrote: >> On 01/24/2017 11:16 AM, Kevin Stange wrote: >>> On 01/24/2017 09:10 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:29:39PM +0800, -=X.L.O.R.D=- wrote: >>>>> Kevin Stange, >>>>> It can be either kernel or update the NIC driver or

On 01/30/2017 06:12 PM, Adi Pircalabu wrote: > On 31/01/17 10:49, Kevin Stange wrote: >> You said 3.x kernels specifically. The kernel on Xen Made Easy now is a >> 4.4 kernel. Any chance you have tested with that one? > > Not yet, however the future Xen nodes we'll deploy will run CentOS 7 and > Xen with kernel 4.4. I'll keep you (and others here) posted on my

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Nathan March <nathan at gt.net> wrote: > Hi, > > > Hmm.. isn't this the ldisc bug that was discussed a few months ago on > this > list, > > and a patch was applied to virt-sig kernel aswell? > > > > Call trace looks similar.. > > Good memory! I'd forgotten about that despite being the one who ran into >

On 02/21/2017 05:32 PM, Kevin Stange wrote: > On 02/21/2017 11:50 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 02/21/2017 11:47 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> >>> >>> Kevin, >>> >>> Please try the 4.9.11-22 kernel that I just released for CentOS-6 (along >>> with the newer linux-firmare packages and xfsprogs). >>> >>> If you enable

On 01/30/2017 03:18 AM, Jinesh Choksi wrote: >>Are there other kernel options that might be useful to try? > > pci=nomsi > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1521173/comments/13 Incidentally, already found that one and I'm trying it currently on one of the boxes. So far there's been no issues, but it's only been since Friday. Also, I found

On 01/27/2017 06:08 AM, Karel Hendrych wrote: > Have you tried to eliminate all power management features all over? I've been trying to find and disable all power management features but having relatively little luck with that solving the problems. Stabbing the the dark I've tried different ACPI settings, including completely disabling it, disabling CPU frequency scaling, and setting

Kevin has been rolling back the security updates to the 4.4 branch. He has been working with some of the other distros (debian for sure, and some others on the xen security list). I think it is his intention to continue this for as long as he is able to. (Kevin, chime in if you have a schedule lifetime or EOL in mind) As long as Kevin (or anyone else) maintains the tree, I am happy to build

On 02/21/2017 11:47 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/23/2017 11:04 AM, Kevin Stange wrote: >> I have three different types of CentOS 6 Xen 4.4 based hypervisors (by >> hardware) that are experiencing stability issues which I haven't been >> able to track down. All three types seem to be having issues with NIC >> and/or PCIe. In most cases, the issues are

On 09/05/2017 02:26 PM, Kevin Stange wrote: > On 09/04/2017 05:27 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 09/04/2017 03:59 PM, Kevin Stange wrote: >>> On 09/02/2017 08:11 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>>> On 09/01/2017 02:41 PM, Kevin Stange wrote: >>>>> On 08/31/2017 07:50 AM, PJ Welsh wrote: >>>>>> A recently created and fully functional CentOS

On 01/26/2017 02:08 PM, Kevin Stange wrote: > On 01/26/2017 09:35 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 01/26/2017 09:32 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 01/25/2017 11:49 AM, Kevin Stange wrote: >>>> On 01/24/2017 11:16 AM, Kevin Stange wrote: >>>>> On 01/24/2017 09:10 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:29:39PM