On 24 February 2018 at 16:15, Glyn M Burton <1750...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> Hello Christian,
>
> May I first apologise if this was not the appropriate place to post.  I
> was coming from an Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu package point of view.
>
> Indeed it is confusing that a package advertising v7.4 is actually an
> older v6.6 release.  The bug, therefore, is surely the fact the apt-
> system perceived the in-built v7.0 virtual drivers (from XenServer's own
> virtual .ISO, much like how VMware does it) as being out of date and
> elected to install v7.4.  The logic in that is sound.  However, it
> ultimately installed v6.6 which is the issue.
>

I do not believe it is an older v6.6 release at all. I do believe it
is the v7.4 release, which maintains backwards compatibility as far
back as v6.6.

Alternatively, could you point me to v7.4 source code of the guest
utils that you were expecting to find, to compare the actual code,
like for like?


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Regards,

Dimitri.

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