Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7.6 and Xen 4.6 / centos-release-xen broken

2019-03-05 Thread George Dunlap
On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 4:50 PM Pasi Kärkkäinen  wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 06:39:59PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > Hello George,
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 12:06:49PM +, George Dunlap wrote:
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > In order to make sure SIG content is "fresh", whenever a new version
> > > of CentOS comes out, content is discarded automatically unless SIG
> > > chairs specifically request it to be moved over.
> > >
> > > At the moment, Xen has three repos that are under consideration to be 
> > > moved up:
> > >
> > > virt/x86_64/xen-46
> > > virt/x86_64/xen-48
> > > virt/x86_64/xen-410
> > >
> > > I'll request xen-48 and xen-410 to be updated for sure, but I wanted
> > > to gauge how much interest there was in xen-46.  If you have strong
> > > feelings about xen-46, let me know (and perhaps consider volunteering
> > > to maintain the packages).
> > >
> >
> > It seems currently "centos-release-xen" package is broken in CentOS7,
> > it points to xen-46 repo, which isn't available anymore in CentOS 7.6:
> >
> > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/virt/x86_64/
> >
> >   -> xen-48/
> >   -> xen-410/
> >
> >
> > # yum clean all
> > # yum search centos-release-xen
> > ..
> > centos-release-xen.x86_64 : CentOS Virt SIG Xen repo configs
> > centos-release-xen-48.x86_64 : CentOS Virt Sig Xen repo configs for Xen 4.8
> > centos-release-xen-common.x86_64 : CentOS Virt Sig Xen support files
> > ..
> >
> > # yum install centos-release-xen
> > # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Xen.repo
> >
> > # CentOS-Xen.repo
> > #
> > # Please see http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/Xen4 for more
> > # information
> >
> > [centos-virt-xen-46]
> > name=CentOS-$releasever - xen
> > baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/xen-46
> > gpgcheck=1
> > enabled=1
> > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization
> >
> > [centos-virt-xen-46-testing]
> > name=CentOS-$releasever - xen - testing
> > baseurl=http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/xen-46
> > gpgcheck=0
> > enabled=0
> > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization
> >
> >
> > I guess two things should happen in CentOS7:
> >
> > 1) Publish centos-release-xen-410 package
> >
>
> Ah, actually it's there already in xen-48 and xen-410 dirs, but not in CentOS 
> extras.
>
>
> > 2) Update centos-release-xen package to point to.. 410 ?
> >
>
> So it seems the "centos-release-xen" package in "extras" repo has the xen-46 
> reference in it.
> So we should update the package in extras.

Sorry, missed this -- yes, we've been trying to get the powers that be
to update it for some time; we did finally manage to get it updated a
week or two ago.  Could you give it a try now?

 -George
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Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7.6 and Xen 4.6 / centos-release-xen broken

2019-03-05 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi,

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 01:32:38PM +, George Dunlap wrote:
> > >
> > > It seems currently "centos-release-xen" package is broken in CentOS7,
> > > it points to xen-46 repo, which isn't available anymore in CentOS 7.6:
> > >
> > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/virt/x86_64/
> > >
> > >   -> xen-48/
> > >   -> xen-410/
> > >
> > >
> > > # yum clean all
> > > # yum search centos-release-xen
> > > ..
> > > centos-release-xen.x86_64 : CentOS Virt SIG Xen repo configs
> > > centos-release-xen-48.x86_64 : CentOS Virt Sig Xen repo configs for Xen 
> > > 4.8
> > > centos-release-xen-common.x86_64 : CentOS Virt Sig Xen support files
> > > ..
> > >
> > > # yum install centos-release-xen
> > > # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Xen.repo
> > >
> > > # CentOS-Xen.repo
> > > #
> > > # Please see http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/Xen4 for more
> > > # information
> > >
> > > [centos-virt-xen-46]
> > > name=CentOS-$releasever - xen
> > > baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/xen-46
> > > gpgcheck=1
> > > enabled=1
> > > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization
> > >
> > > [centos-virt-xen-46-testing]
> > > name=CentOS-$releasever - xen - testing
> > > baseurl=http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/xen-46
> > > gpgcheck=0
> > > enabled=0
> > > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization
> > >
> > >
> > > I guess two things should happen in CentOS7:
> > >
> > > 1) Publish centos-release-xen-410 package
> > >
> >
> > Ah, actually it's there already in xen-48 and xen-410 dirs, but not in 
> > CentOS extras.
> >
> >
> > > 2) Update centos-release-xen package to point to.. 410 ?
> > >
> >
> > So it seems the "centos-release-xen" package in "extras" repo has the 
> > xen-46 reference in it.
> > So we should update the package in extras.
> 
> Sorry, missed this -- yes, we've been trying to get the powers that be
> to update it for some time; we did finally manage to get it updated a
> week or two ago.  Could you give it a try now?
> 

Indeed, now "centos-release-xen" on centos7-extras gives xen-48 repo. That's 
better :)


Thanks a lot,

-- Pasi


>  -George
>

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Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build

2019-03-05 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi,

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 04:22:19PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 6:13 AM Anthony PERARD
><[1]anthony.per...@citrix.com> wrote:
> 
>  On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 03:12:40PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote:
>  > I built 4.9.161, works for me on el6:
>  >
>  > [root@node-tmp1 ~]# cat /proc/version
>  > Linux version 4.9.161-34.el6.x86_64
>  ([2]mockbu...@build.aerisnetwork.net) (gcc
>  > version 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Feb 27
>  09:48:40
>  > EST 2019
>  >
>  > Only one strange thing, I had to run grub-install because Grub
>  couldn't
>  > find root device after reboot, not sure this has something to do with
>  the
>  > kernel upgrade.
>  > Kernel 4.9.161 doesn't have the patch for CVE-2019-8912 yet so we
>  might
>  > wait until it get released.
>  >
>  > I updated my PR: [3]https://github.com/CentOS-virt7/xen-kernel/pull/18
> 
>  Hi Karl, I've build and tested your PR, but without the GCC7 patch, and
>  when I've tested it on el6, none of the guests had network access.
>  I had to revert the bridge changes to have them working
>  (CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER=m and CONFIG_BRIDGE=m).
> 
>  Why did you want the BRIDGE built-in instead of a module?
> 
>  Maybe you have something to setup the bridge (probably filter) properly,
>  or maybe something is different in the xen package between el6 and el7.
>  Any idea?
> 
>  I still have to investigate the Xen pkg, and have a closer look at those
>  tests I'm running.
> 
>Hum strange. I switched from module to built-in because I always had a
>deprecated warning about bridge when booting CentOS 6 (and I guess
>everyone needs bridge?). I don't remember what was the exact warning
>because it's been a long time since I switched it. I don't mind to put it
>back as a module, both works for me but the warning is gone when built-in.
>

Yeah better to keep things as modules, like they have been.

btw upstream Linux 4.9 LTS kernel is now at 4.9.162 :)


>Karl
> 

-- Pasi

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