Re: Call-for-Testing: KVM-84 Backport
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 08:31:42PM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote: You know that I'm pretty close to uploading a 9.04 server kernel to Hardy proposed, don't you? https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kernel-karmic-new-kernel-on-lts I did not know this, no. Fascinating. Will there be a corresponding linux-meta-karmic such that I could install linux-server-karmic or similar and have that depend on the most recent backported kernel? Otherwise, how will ABI breaking security updates be handled? -- Soren Hansen | Lead Virtualisation Engineer | Ubuntu Server Team Canonical Ltd. | http://www.ubuntu.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
Re: Call-for-Testing: KVM-84 Backport
Soren Hansen wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 08:31:42PM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote: You know that I'm pretty close to uploading a 9.04 server kernel to Hardy proposed, don't you? https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kernel-karmic-new-kernel-on-lts I did not know this, no. Fascinating. Will there be a corresponding linux-meta-karmic such that I could install linux-server-karmic or similar and have that depend on the most recent backported kernel? Otherwise, how will ABI breaking security updates be handled? Essentially, that is exactly how I plan to handle it. The binary meta packages will likely have a '2.6.28' in their names instead of 'karmic'. rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gard...@canonical.com -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
Re: Call-for-Testing: KVM-84 Backport
Tim Gardner wrote: You know that I'm pretty close to uploading a 9.04 server kernel to Hardy proposed, don't you? https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kernel-karmic-new-kernel-on-lts Uh... That will require backporting some userspace tools (drbd says hello again :) from 9.04 and moving them to hardy proposed at the same time as kernel. Could we sync that effort somehow? Another way out would be putting dkms-enabled drbd in proposed, so that it's (almost) independent of kernel changes. -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
Re: Call-for-Testing: KVM-84 Backport
Dustin Kirkland wrote: Howdy, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was the first of the major server distributions to ship KVM as the preferred hypervisor for virtual machine hosting. KVM's upstream development has proceeded at a vigorous pace--faster than Ubuntu's other server cornerstones (LAMP, Samba, Bind, Postfix, etc). The major version of the KVM userspace shipped in 8.04.2 LTS (kvm-62), and the kvm kernel module in linux-2.6.24 are affected by several key architectural issues that cannot be solved through cherry-picked patches. On March 17, 2009, I posted the following call for testing: * http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/03/ubuntu-server-kvm-call-for-testing.html We have worked through a number of the issues raised after that blog post, and cherry-picked several patches that fix some known bugs. We believe that Ubuntu 9.04's kvm-84 is a far more complete hypervisor. This is a call for one more round of testing of a release-candidate build of that package (kvm - 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu12.1~rc1) in the ubuntu-virt ppa: * https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-virt/+archive/ppa If you are able to assist us with the testing, please add that PPA, and install both the userspace and dkms built kernel module onto your 8.04 and/or 8.10 servers. $ sudo apt-get install kvm kvm-source Please file any bugs against kvm in Launchpad, and please tag them with kvm-84. * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kvm The goal is to upload a version of kvm-84 to the hardy-backports and intrepid-backports repositories around July 6, 2009. * https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports Thank you, You know that I'm pretty close to uploading a 9.04 server kernel to Hardy proposed, don't you? https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kernel-karmic-new-kernel-on-lts rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gard...@canonical.com -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
