From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Kurth Subject: Announcing Release for Xen4CentOS project Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:58:55 +0100 Message-ID: <51C326BF.3070305@xen.org> References: <51C324F8.6070304@centos.org> Reply-To: lars.kurth@xen.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6898627065959915837==" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <51C324F8.6070304@centos.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , xen-announce@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============6898627065959915837== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040606030904030407090805" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040606030904030407090805 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fantastic news! A big thank you to *everybody* who was involved and helped make this happen! Lars -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Announcing Release for Xen4CentOS project Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:51:20 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh Organisation: The CentOS Project To: Lars Kurth , xen-users@lists.xen.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We are pleased to announce the immediate availability for the Xen4 virtualisation stack for CentOS-6/x86_64 The software is delivered as a dedicated repository under http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/xen4/ and were developed with the help of the Xen Project, the Citrix Xen open-source team, GoDaddy.com's Cloud Engineering team and Rackspace Hosting. +++++++++++++++++++++++ Release Notes Detailed release notes are publised on the CentOS wiki at: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/Xen4-01 We highly recommend everyone goes through this once, it explains the process we use to update, howto get and apply security as well as bugfix updates and policies around the packaging. +++++++++++++++++++++++ Getting Started We have tried to ensure we stay as close to upstream xen project policy as much as possible and all docs published upstream should still apply to the Xen4CentOS builds. To make getting started easy and quick, we have also published a Quick Started guide at: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart The Xen4CentOS virtualisation stack is available on CentOS-6 x86_64 only; and can be enabled by 'yum install centos-release-xen' which will setup the repo; The QuickStart guide mentioned above then has details on howto do the complete inital install. +++++++++++++++++++++++ Getting involved and support The xen4centos virtualisation stack is considered production grade stable and supported via the CentOS community on irc at #centos-virt on irc.freenode.net and the centos-virt list at http://lists.centos.org/ ; All issue reports should be filed at http://bugs.centos.org/ against CentOS-6/xen +++++++++++++++++++++++ Thanks and credits I would like to thank the Lars Kurth at the Xen Project for helping bootstrap the initiative that lead to this project; Richard Sharp, Stefano Stabellini, James Bulpin and David Vrabel at the Citrix Xen Open Source group for their help on the Xen hypervisor; Frediano Zilio at Citrix for doing the Libvirt ports; Pasi Karkkainen in the CentOS-QA team for all the testing and feedback; Johnny Hughes at the CentOS Project for the packaging, updates and repository management; Darren Shepherd and Mike Dorman along with the GoDaddy Cloud Engineering team for their extensive testing; Antony Messerli and the Rackspace Hosting team for their testing efforts. Enjoy! - -- Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, The CentOS Project +44-207-0999389 | http://www.centos.org/ | twitter.com/CentOS GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHDJPgACgkQMA29nj4Tz1uN8wCcDzdEWaPL0vOHti0Irk5NNDpV hK0AoJjmtzB5jA3LNp/NrwZfTcE7CkMw =pZ5z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------040606030904030407090805 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fantastic news! A big thank you to *everybody* who was involved and helped make this happen!
Lars
 
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Subject: Announcing Release for Xen4CentOS project
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:51:20 +0100
From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh@centos.org>
Organisation: The CentOS Project
To: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xen.org>, xen-users@lists.xen.org 


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We are pleased to announce the immediate availability for the Xen4
virtualisation stack for CentOS-6/x86_64

The software is delivered as a dedicated repository under
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/xen4/ and were developed
with the help of the Xen Project, the Citrix Xen open-source
team, GoDaddy.com's Cloud Engineering team and Rackspace
Hosting.

+++++++++++++++++++++++
Release Notes

Detailed release notes are publised on the CentOS wiki at:
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/Xen4-01

We highly recommend everyone goes through this once, it explains
the process we use to update, howto get and apply security as
well as bugfix updates and policies around the packaging.

+++++++++++++++++++++++
Getting Started

We have tried to ensure we stay as close to upstream xen project
policy as much as possible and all docs published upstream should
still apply to the Xen4CentOS builds. To make getting started
easy and quick, we have also published a Quick Started guide
at: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart

The Xen4CentOS virtualisation stack is available on CentOS-6
x86_64 only; and can be enabled by 'yum install centos-release-xen'
which will setup the repo; The QuickStart guide mentioned above
then has details on howto do the complete inital install.

+++++++++++++++++++++++
Getting involved and support

The xen4centos virtualisation stack is considered production
grade stable and supported via the CentOS community on irc
at #centos-virt on irc.freenode.net and the centos-virt list
at http://lists.centos.org/ ; All issue reports should be
filed at http://bugs.centos.org/ against CentOS-6/xen

+++++++++++++++++++++++
Thanks and credits

I would like to thank the Lars Kurth at the Xen Project for
helping bootstrap the initiative that lead to this project;
Richard Sharp, Stefano Stabellini, James Bulpin and David Vrabel
at the Citrix Xen Open Source group for their help on the Xen
hypervisor; Frediano Zilio at Citrix for doing the Libvirt
ports; Pasi Karkkainen in the CentOS-QA team for all the testing
and feedback; Johnny Hughes at the CentOS Project for the
packaging, updates and repository management; Darren Shepherd and
Mike Dorman along with the GoDaddy Cloud Engineering team for
their extensive testing; Antony Messerli and the Rackspace
Hosting team for their testing efforts.

Enjoy!

- -- 
Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, The CentOS Project
+44-207-0999389 | http://www.centos.org/ | twitter.com/CentOS
GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc
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