Xen 4.4.1-rc1+ Rebase

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I’ve got a first cut of the rebase here:

git://github.com/gwd/sig-virt-xen out/update-4.4.1-rc1-ee81dda-RFC

To build it, you’ll need to download the polarssl tarball:

http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-extfiles/polarssl-1.1.4-gpl.tgz

And you’ll need a tarball based on (unfortunately) a private tree, which you can find here:

git://github.com/gwd/xen base/update-4.4.1-rc1-ee81dda-RFC

This branch is based on upstream ee81dda (the current staging-4.4), with an additional two backported commits.

To reproduce the tarball, checkout the above branch, then:

./configure make -C tools qemu-xen-dir-find make -C tools qemu-xen-traditional-find make src-tarball

A couple of notes:

* I haven’t actually had time to test this yet! This is just so we’re not totally duplicating work…
* This does not have XSA-100 in it yet, so it’s not quite ready for release.

-George

8 thoughts on - Xen 4.4.1-rc1+ Rebase

  • Actually, it turns out it *does* have XSA-100; and it seems to install over xen4CentOS xen-4.2.4 just fine. (Although I accidentally built it in an environment with ocaml installed, so my RPM required me to install ocaml… I expect that will be fine built in a normal environment).

    -George

  • *sigh* This is wrong. It should be:

    tools/misc/mktarball $PWD

    If you do the above command, you’ll end up with a release-looking tarball, rather than one with the git commit ID in the name.

    Also NB, two things:

    * The “src-tarball” build target (and the mktarball script) is not available in the normal 4.4 tree; it’s a draft of a bit of functionality I’m in the process if pushing upstream. It may or may not end up backported to 4.4.1.
    * If you’ve already cloned the qemu trees, you need to run “make -C
    tools qemu-xen-dir-force-update” instead.

    -George

  • I don’t know? :-) I gave it a quick smoke-test (booted, started some guests). That should have shaken out any really weird cases. Is that good enough, or would you like further dev testing before putting it on the CentOS builders?

    -George

  • Well … I do not know how to use George’s git formating to produce patches .. so he would need to do that part.

    I can build something on the new CBS.CentOS.org though. (Well, I have the required access … still learning how to use it)