Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-16 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 12:32 AM Steven Haigh wrote: > > 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

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-16 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 1:06 PM Nils Meyer wrote: > On 13/12/2019 01.31, Steven Haigh wrote: > > 2) There's no brctl in CentOS 8. The network scripts need to be > > re-written to use 'ip' instead. To maintain compatibility, the network > > scripts need to support both brctl and ip commands and

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-13 Thread Nils Meyer
Hi, On 13/12/2019 01.31, Steven Haigh wrote: > 2) There's no brctl in CentOS 8. The network scripts need to be > re-written to use 'ip' instead. To maintain compatibility, the network > scripts need to support both brctl and ip commands and use whichever is > present on the system. I think the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-13 Thread Christoph
It seems to rh/centos has removed the xen code from their kernels... I was able to boot centos8 as domU but only with an elrepo kernel... Look at elrepo kernel I think it should do as dom0 to... --- -- Greetz Am 13.12.2019 13:41, schrieb Steven Haigh: The latest bunch of test packages are

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-13 Thread Steven Haigh
The latest bunch of test packages are available here: http://au1.mirror.crc.id.au/repo/el8/x86_64/ Hopefully, as of a few hours ago, this set should actually install. Currently, networking won't work as they require brctl - which isn't in EL8. I've written patches for this, but they'll

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-13 Thread Christoph
hi if you need someone to test the centos8 pkgs, Im interested :) --- -- Greetz Am 13.12.2019 01:31, schrieb 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

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

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. > >

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

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

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-04 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 6:12 PM George Dunlap wrote: newest version. > > Any other options? Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. I plan to collect responses on 12 December (2 weeks from when I sent the initial email) and try to make a decision. -George

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-02 Thread Kevin Stange
On 12/2/19 11:08 AM, Kevin Stange wrote: > On 11/28/19 12:12 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

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-02 Thread Kevin Stange
On 11/28/19 12:12 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 committed to

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-11-28 Thread Karl Johnson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 1:12 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

[CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-11-28 Thread George Dunlap
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 committed to officially supporting one Xen version at a time through