is there already a release of xen for CentOS7? If not it is on roadmap?
If yes when could it be done?
7 thoughts on - Xen And CentOS7
Hi,
Yeah the testing rpms for CentOS7/xen are in virt7-xen-44-testing repository (and virt7-xen-46-testing aswell).
— Pasi
Am 2015-09-25 09:53, schrieb Pasi Kärkkäinen:
oh cool… how stable is it? I know the meanig of testing :) but it is stable enough to use it at home?
Are there any known bugs/problems?
If I want to start to use it, could I take already xen-46 or it is to unstable in comparison to xen-44?
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Greetz
The xen-46 version is the RC code from citrix that is going to become xen-4.6 .. our latest version is xen-4.6 RC3 (third release candidate). I have no idea how close that is to real release.
The kernel initially requires some forcing to get the firmware installed
.. we will try to fix that issue in the future. But once you get this kernel installed and the original one removed, you should have no further issues with that.
As to whether or not it is stable enough, that is a personal preference
.. both branches do ‘work’ currently. And when xen-4.6 is released, we the new xen-4.6 is released will be rolled into the xen-46 tree. We will continue to maintain the xen-4.4 as well, until we actually release xen-4.6 into production.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
The code is from the XenProject, which is developed by a number of different companies, not just Citrix.
The XenProject has greatly expanded our automated testing over the last few years; additionally, a number of different companies have their own automated test suites (Oracle, XenServer), and test the development branches regularly.
The bugs we’ve found since RC1 have been almost entirely in niche cases — enabling this feature broke that bit of hardware; switching this caused that obscure configuration not to work quite right; adding this build option breaks things with that particular compiler.
All that to say, RC3 is pretty close to what the final release will be. The main thing that needs testing is actually the packaging effort — is it easy to install? Does it upgrade properly? &c.
And the main thing holding up the official C7 release (for either of them) is just testing. The more people install, test it, and say
“this works for me” (or report bugs when it doesnt’ work), the sooner the release will come. :-)
-George
Am 2015-09-25 17:25, schrieb George Dunlap:
it works for me since 2 days without issues… only one thing what I
needed to change was the path of pvgrub :) (from /usr/lib… to
/usr/lib64…)
Thanks for the report.
Was that because you had the path to the pvgrub image in your config file?
If so, it might be a good idea to add a symbolic link from /usr/lib to
/usr/lib64 for pvgrub.
7 thoughts on - Xen And CentOS7
Hi,
Yeah the testing rpms for CentOS7/xen are in virt7-xen-44-testing repository (and virt7-xen-46-testing aswell).
— Pasi
Am 2015-09-25 09:53, schrieb Pasi Kärkkäinen:
oh cool… how stable is it? I know the meanig of testing :) but it is stable enough to use it at home?
Are there any known bugs/problems?
If I want to start to use it, could I take already xen-46 or it is to unstable in comparison to xen-44?
—
——
Greetz
The xen-46 version is the RC code from citrix that is going to become xen-4.6 .. our latest version is xen-4.6 RC3 (third release candidate). I have no idea how close that is to real release.
The repo is here:
http://cbs.CentOS.org/repos/virt7-xen-46-testing/x86_64/os/
The kernel initially requires some forcing to get the firmware installed
.. we will try to fix that issue in the future. But once you get this kernel installed and the original one removed, you should have no further issues with that.
As to whether or not it is stable enough, that is a personal preference
.. both branches do ‘work’ currently. And when xen-4.6 is released, we the new xen-4.6 is released will be rolled into the xen-46 tree. We will continue to maintain the xen-4.4 as well, until we actually release xen-4.6 into production.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
The code is from the XenProject, which is developed by a number of different companies, not just Citrix.
The XenProject has greatly expanded our automated testing over the last few years; additionally, a number of different companies have their own automated test suites (Oracle, XenServer), and test the development branches regularly.
The bugs we’ve found since RC1 have been almost entirely in niche cases — enabling this feature broke that bit of hardware; switching this caused that obscure configuration not to work quite right; adding this build option breaks things with that particular compiler.
All that to say, RC3 is pretty close to what the final release will be. The main thing that needs testing is actually the packaging effort — is it easy to install? Does it upgrade properly? &c.
And the main thing holding up the official C7 release (for either of them) is just testing. The more people install, test it, and say
“this works for me” (or report bugs when it doesnt’ work), the sooner the release will come. :-)
-George
Am 2015-09-25 17:25, schrieb George Dunlap:
it works for me since 2 days without issues… only one thing what I
needed to change was the path of pvgrub :) (from /usr/lib… to
/usr/lib64…)
Thanks for the report.
Was that because you had the path to the pvgrub image in your config file?
If so, it might be a good idea to add a symbolic link from /usr/lib to
/usr/lib64 for pvgrub.
-George
right… is there an other better way to use it?
oh, IMHO it make sense to place it inside lib64