Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-12 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 5:08 PM Kevin Stange wrote: > By supporting only even numbered releases as is the case now, it has not > been possible to do hot migration based upgrades which means that we > have to do full reboots of our entire environment every so often. Right > now we're running on Xen

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-12 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 6:12 PM George Dunlap wrote: > > Hey all, > > This mail has been a long time in coming, but with the upcoming > expiration of security support for Xen 4.8, it's time to start thinking > about what our update policy will be for the Xen packages in general. > > Citrix is comm

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-12 Thread Kevin Stange
On 12/12/19 8:25 AM, George Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 5:08 PM Kevin Stange wrote: >> I don't really think we should drop a release before its security >> support ends, unless we have *really clear* communication to repo users >> as to the life cycles of these builds in advance. > > I

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-12 Thread Steven Haigh
On 2019-12-13 04:54, Kevin Stange wrote: I don't want to burden Steven Haigh any, but I wonder if there's a way we could combine some of our efforts to make both "Xen made easy!" and the Virt SIG Xen easier to manage. I've been thinking about this for a while. The problem has been the workflow