Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4 Immediate EOL

2018-01-22 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/18/2018 02:29 PM, Sarah Newman wrote: > 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.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4 Immediate EOL

2018-01-19 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 12:17 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:48:35AM -0600, Kevin Stange wrote: >> Hi, >> > > 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

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4 Immediate EOL

2018-01-19 Thread John Haxby
On 19/01/18 17:58, Kevin Stange wrote: > On 01/19/2018 06:17 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:48:35AM -0600, Kevin Stange wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >> >> Hi, >> >>> I am very sorry to do this on short notice, but obviously Meltdown and >>> Spectre are a lot more than anyone was

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4 Immediate EOL

2018-01-19 Thread Kevin Stange
On 01/19/2018 06:17 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:48:35AM -0600, Kevin Stange wrote: >> Hi, >> > > 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.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4 Immediate EOL

2018-01-18 Thread Sarah Newman
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 4.4 Immediate EOL

2018-01-18 Thread Kevin Stange
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

2018-01-18 Thread Kevin Stange
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