Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-02-10 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Sarah Newman wrote: > On 01/21/2016 04:32 AM, George Dunlap wrote: > >> I'm a developer, not a server admin, so I can't gauge how important >> this issue is. Before making such a change, I'd like to hear opinions >> from other people in the

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-02-10 Thread Peter
On 11/02/16 06:07, George Dunlap wrote: > BTW, we had a discussion about this particular idea at the Virt SIG > meeting, and KB said that different naming of packages like this can > cause dependency problems. For example, a package depends on > "xen-version >= $N" will fail because as far as rpm

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-02-06 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/02/2016 08:47 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > On 01/14/2016 06:57 PM, George Dunlap wrote: >> As mentioned yesterday, Xen 4.6 packages are now available for >> testing. These also include an update to libvirt 1.3.0, in line with >> what's available for CentOS 7. Please test, particularly the

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-02-02 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 01/14/2016 06:57 PM, George Dunlap wrote: As mentioned yesterday, Xen 4.6 packages are now available for testing. These also include an update to libvirt 1.3.0, in line with what's available for CentOS 7. Please test, particularly the upgrade if you can, and report any problems here. To

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-02-02 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > On 01/14/2016 06:57 PM, George Dunlap wrote: >> >> As mentioned yesterday, Xen 4.6 packages are now available for >> testing. These also include an update to libvirt 1.3.0, in line with >> what's available for

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Peter wrote: > On 15/01/16 05:57, George Dunlap wrote: >> As mentioned yesterday, Xen 4.6 packages are now available for >> testing. These also include an update to libvirt 1.3.0, in line with >> what's available for CentOS 7. Please

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread Phill Bandelow
raig Thompson, President > > Caldwell Global Communications, Inc. > > +1 (423) 559-5465 > > caldwellglobal.com > > > -Original message- > *From:* George Dunlap <dunl...@umich.edu> > *Sent:* Thursday 21st January 2016 7:32 > *To:* Discussion about

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread Alvin Starr
. On the other hand If your picking xen up from http://someplace.org/riskey-development/xen.repo then your getting what you ask for. On 01/21/2016 08:09 AM, President wrote: RE: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing My .02 is to stay

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread Peter
On 15/01/16 05:57, George Dunlap wrote: > As mentioned yesterday, Xen 4.6 packages are now available for > testing. These also include an update to libvirt 1.3.0, in line with > what's available for CentOS 7. Please test, particularly the upgrade > if you can, and report any problems here. Per

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Phill Bandelow wrote: > Well when the last upgrade 4.2 > 4.4 went live and XM was disabled by > default it took many hosts down without warning. 4.4 > 4.6 may cause the > same issues. It's a dangerous upgrade for sure. Why can't 4.4 be LTS for

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread President
6 7:32 To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS <centos-virt@centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Peter <pe...@pajamian.dhs.org> wrote: > On 15/01/16 05:57

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/21/2016 08:02 AM, George Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Phill Bandelow wrote: >> Well when the last upgrade 4.2 > 4.4 went live and XM was disabled by >> default it took many hosts down without warning. 4.4 > 4.6 may cause the >> same issues. It's a

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/21/2016 09:29 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> This is a community SIG .. and xenproject.org does NOT release XSAs for >> 4.2. The goal of Xen4centOS was to use an upstream LTS kernel and >> update those as required to

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/21/2016 09:29 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > This is a community SIG .. and xenproject.org does NOT release XSAs for > 4.2. The goal of Xen4centOS was to use an upstream LTS kernel and > update those as required to stay on an LTS. Also to do every second > point release of xen (ie, 4.2, 4.4,

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
velopment/xen.repo then your getting what > you ask for. > > > On 01/21/2016 08:09 AM, President wrote: >> RE: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in >> centos-virt-xen-testing >> >> My .02 is to stay the course. As a server admin, I w

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/21/2016 09:52 AM, George Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 01/21/2016 09:29 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> This is a community SIG .. and xenproject.org does NOT release XSAs for >>> 4.2. The goal of Xen4centOS was to use an

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Alvin Starr wrote: > My comment was targeted more at naming than support. > > I appreciate that there are vanishingly few resources to throw at support. > > I am glad to see any xen support for C7 and am thankful of all those who are > putting in

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Phill Bandelow wrote: > Well when the last upgrade 4.2 > 4.4 went live and XM was disabled by > default it took many hosts down without warning. 4.4 > 4.6 may cause the > same issues. It's a dangerous upgrade for sure. Why can't 4.4 be LTS for

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread Peter
On 22/01/16 01:32, George Dunlap wrote: > 1. In the Xen 4.4 packages (first released October 2014), xend was > disabled by default; so anyone using xend at the moment has already > manually intervened to enable deprecated functionality Xen4CentOS was first available in CentOS 6.4 with Xen 4.2, so

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-21 Thread Sarah Newman
On 01/21/2016 04:32 AM, George Dunlap wrote: > I'm a developer, not a server admin, so I can't gauge how important > this issue is. Before making such a change, I'd like to hear opinions > from other people in the community about how important (or not) it is > to avoid breaking xm, given the

[CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Virt SIG Xen 4.6 packages available in centos-virt-xen-testing

2016-01-14 Thread George Dunlap
As mentioned yesterday, Xen 4.6 packages are now available for testing. These also include an update to libvirt 1.3.0, in line with what's available for CentOS 7. Please test, particularly the upgrade if you can, and report any problems here. To upgrade: yum update