Flag Day: xVM version updated

Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:21:34 -0600

From: Stu Maybee <Stuart.Maybee at sun dot com>

To: on-all at sun dot com, onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com

Subject: Flag Day: xVM version updated

The putback for:

6849090 Need to synch with newer versions of Xen and associated tools

is a major update of Xen and related tools, and is a flag day for all

xVM users. ON BFU archives and xVM packages must not be mixed across

this putback; that is, if your ON archives include this putback, then so

must your xVM packages.

As a reminder, xVM is NOT updated as part of BFU. To update xVM

packages, use this script before BFU:

/ws/xvm-gate/public/bin/update_xvm

If you use virt-manager, note that an upgrade is required - the new

virt-manager will be available in snv_121.

If you're building xvm-gate, you may find you need to update your build

machine to a more recent version of Nevada. Note that the build process

has changed: now, the build-all script doesn't produce output unless new

warnings or errors are found during the build.

If you have an existing xvm-gate checkout, you cannot directly update it

to include this putback. The official xVM gate has moved onto

opensolaris.org. You can get a copy by getting the update-gate script

from this page:

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/xen-gate/

and running

./update-gate xvm-child ssh://anon at hg dot opensolaris dot org/hg/xen-gate/xvm-gate+

The usual RTI process is still required for putbacks to the xVM gate,

obviously.

Please send any questions to xen-discuss at opensolaris dot org