CentOS 6 Xen 4.4.1 Packages Available On Virt6-testing

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At long last, I’ve got some beta CentOS 6 4.4.1 packages up on the CBS.

Major updates include:
* Update to Xen 4.4.1. Also includes all XSAs through 114
* Update to latest blktap 2.5
* Updated libvirt packages (1.2.10), which work well with libxl

To use, add the following to a file in /etc/yum.repos.d:

[virt-testing]
name

5 thoughts on - CentOS 6 Xen 4.4.1 Packages Available On Virt6-testing

  • Great!

    I’ll test soon. Thanks a lot!

    Oh and sorry that I couldn’t make it to the Virt SIG call today, I was busy/offline..

    — Pasi

  • George,

    I don’t mind if xend is on or off, but the virt-manager (virt-install, etc.) that is included with the current xen4 tree will not work at all with libxl.

    We therefore do not have a GUI front end that can do libxl at this time.

    I might suggest leaving xend on for 4.4.x and we stabilize on 4.4.x on the production branch, and then start a testing branch that will be 4.5
    (or newer) with a newer libvirt, virt-manager, qemu, etc.

    I thought maybe a new kernel as well, but based on this:

    https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

    It seems 3.10.x (at Sept 2016) is the best LTS kernel for support purposes.

    Thanks, Johnny Hughes

  • So, I can’t read :) .. 3.10.x stops in Sept 2016

    Looks like jumping to 3.14.x would be required at some point, might as well try to do that in the testing branch as well.

    Thanks, JOhnny Hughes

  • Are you sure? I thought I remembered trying virt-install with libvirt and having success. Pasik, did you try this?

    If virt-manager really doesn’t work with libxl, then yes, we should probably sort that out one way or another.

    I’d really like to be able to leave xend off, to make sure people are starting to think about migration; but if there’s no way to get virt-manager to work without it, we’ll just have to turn xend back on and see what we can do.

    Yes, updating to a new kernel (probably 3.14) is my next big work item.

    -George