[CentOS-virt] Xen 4.6.6-9 (with XPTI meltdown mitigation) packages making their way to centos-virt-xen-testing

2018-01-17 Thread George Dunlap
I've built & tagged packages for CentOS 6 and 7 4.6.6-9, with XPTI "stage 1" Meltdown mitigation. This will allow 64-bit PV guests to run safely (with a few caveats), but incurs a fairly significant slowdown for 64-bit PV guests on Intel boxes (including domain 0). If you prefer using Vixen /

[CentOS-virt] Centos 6 2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64 does not boot in Xen PV mode

2018-01-17 Thread Dan
Is this now fixed in the latest release by updating the hypervisor, the same as CentOS 7? Or does this require something further? I came across https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3312501 which seems to suggest Redhat are working on resolving the issue, so if that's the case then maybe the