xen 4.2 pre build available to test

[M A Young]

I have been doing a test build of the current xen unstable tree in 
preparation for the eventual xen 4.2 release which I would like to use for 
Fedora 18 if it is ready in time. It is temporarily available at
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4129929

The build uses the xen fork of qemu and also uses seabios and ipxe bios 
roms from the relevant Fedora packages rather than let xen pull them in 
via git. Note it won't work with the current libvirt packages as they are 
built against xen-4.1 and some library versions have changed in 4.2.

 	Michael Young

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 08:42:31PM +0100, M A Young wrote:
>  I have been doing a test build of the current xen unstable tree in
>  preparation for the eventual xen 4.2 release which I would like to
>  use for Fedora 18 if it is ready in time. It is temporarily
>  available at
>  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4129929 
Awesome!
>  
>  The build uses the xen fork of qemu and also uses seabios and ipxe
>  bios roms from the relevant Fedora packages rather than let xen pull
>  them in via git. Note it won't work with the current libvirt
>  packages as they are built against xen-4.1 and some library versions
>  have changed in 4.2. 
Should I use F17 and then dump the images or would you recommend F18(rawhide?)

>  
>  	Michael Young
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[M A Young]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:

>  Should I use F17 and then dump the images or would you recommend
> F18(rawhide?) 
I don't think it matters whether you use F17 or F18 (though they are 
compiled against F17 so that is more likely to work). Incidentally, I 
tried rebuilding libvirt against this version of xen but it doesn't build, 
even if I add a patch that is supposed to get it to work.

 	Michael Young