Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4 Immediate EOL

On 01/18/2018 09:56 AM, Kevin Stange wrote: > Apparently I failed to do proper due diligence before making this > recommendation. The Xen 4.4 repo does not have vixen build because of a > dependency upon grub2 which isn't available under CentOS 6. Your best > bet would be to use Vixen for PV

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

Hi Nathan, On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 9:31 PM, Nathan March wrote: >> -Original Message- >> As there are now quite many options to choose from, what would be the >> best option performance wise for running 32bit domUs under xen-4.6? >> >> Best, >> Peter >> > > It's worth

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

> -Original Message- > From: CentOS-virt [mailto:centos-virt-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of > Peter Peltonen > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 11:19 AM > To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS > Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.6.6-9 (with XPTI

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

Thanks George. As there are now quite many options to choose from, what would be the best option performance wise for running 32bit domUs under xen-4.6? Best, Peter On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 7:14 PM, George Dunlap wrote: > I've built & tagged packages for CentOS 6 and 7

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4 Immediate EOL

On 01/18/2018 11:48 AM, Kevin Stange wrote: > Hi, > > I am very sorry to do this on short notice, but obviously Meltdown and > Spectre are a lot more than anyone was really expecting to come down the > pipeline. Xen 4.4 has been EOL upstream for about a year now and I have > personally been

[CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4 Immediate EOL

Hi, I am very sorry to do this on short notice, but obviously Meltdown and Spectre are a lot more than anyone was really expecting to come down the pipeline. Xen 4.4 has been EOL upstream for about a year now and I have personally been reviewing and backporting patches based on the 4.5 versions

Re: [CentOS-virt] "Vixen" HVM shim package available in virt-xen-testing

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:45 AM, George Dunlap wrote: > To install the package: > > yum --enablerepo=virt-xen-VV-testing xen-vixen > > Where VV is '44', '46', or '48', depending on which version you're > using. (It's the same package for all versions.) > > This will install