Thanks for the update, Mike! Question: has beta 2 been released yet? I'm still seeing a link to the build 61002c (10/5/2012) on the download page ( http://www.xen.org/download/xcp/index_1.6.0.html). Could you send us (or update the webpage) the url for the beta 2 build? Thanks.
Dan On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Mike McClurg <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wanted to give a status update on the XCP 1.6 release. I have > updated the XCP Roadmap [1] to reflect the following information. > > XCP 1.6 is currently at beta 2, and we had been scheduled to publish the > final release on Wednesday. We are going to slip this date by a couple > weeks, and issue another beta release. I don't have a firm date on when > the either the third beta or the final release will ship. I can tell you > that this will not be a repeat of the XCP 1.5 eternal beta. I promise. > > Here is the current state of things: > > Our test day on 9 October was successful in that it uncovered a number > of issues which need to be fixed before we can publish a final XCP. > These are the issues which we found: > > 1) Install splash screen shows Citrix XenServer. > > This is minor, but easy to fix. > > 2) Severe performance degradation with XenCenter attached. > > This is due to a bug with the event subsystem which causes all events > for all xapi objects to be returned on each event request, instead of > the ones the user has requested. This results in quite a bit of extra > network traffic, as well as causing xapi to use up 10-20% CPU when "idle". > > The bug has been found and a fix is being tested now. This will be > included in the next beta. > > 3) Upgrade issues. > > There are several issues with upgrading: > > - Host upgrade from 1.1 doesn't work without patching the installer and > modifying the file /etc/xensource-inventory on the host prior to > upgrading. There is a patch on the mailing list that I'm working to > integrate, but I need to test it to make sure it doesn't break other > upgrades. > > - Pool upgrade from 1.1 is untested (by me). Does anyone have anything > to report on this? > > - Host upgrade from 1.5 works as of beta 2. > > - Pool upgrade from 1.5 does not work without shutting down VMs. VMs > cannot be migrated off of XCP 1.5 hosts during an upgrade. I'm trying to > figure out a workaround for this, but it may require a patch to XCP 1.5 > hosts prior to upgrading. > > The root cause of the upgrade issues has been a change in the way that > XCP reports its version. This change was made to make it easier to > distinguish XCP hosts from XenServer hosts by their versions, and to > make it easy to compare versions of XCP hosts to XenServer hosts. > Unfortunately, this change makes it difficult for the host installer to > recognize the correct version information on older hosts, and causes a > bug in xapi on XCP 1.5 when it tries to migrate to newer hosts. > > These are the issues that we're working on. I would much rather delay > the XCP 1.6 final release to make sure it's good as it can be, than to > ship it with these known defects. I hope everyone agrees that it will be > worth the wait. > > Mike > > [1] http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XCP_Roadmap > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-api mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api >
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