Re: [Xen-users] Xen branches

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 01:14:02PM +0100, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
> 
>    Hi Greg,
> 
>    My Dom0 is CentOS 5.5. I just want to ensure that security fixes (I'm
>    happy with the current feature set) will still be released (for both
>    kernel and Xen). How long left do you think it is safe to stick with the
>    current system?
> 
>    Also, I had to get my Xen version from Gitco, as the version that came
>    with CentOS 5.5 was 3.0.x (I think - might be 3.1.x). So I don't think I'm
>    even using Red Hat's backports (I'm using their kernel though)
> 

Well check Redhat's website for RHEL5 lifecycle.
Iirc RHEL5 is supported until 2014.

And then there are special support contracts available after that, 
for even longer support.

Xen hypervisor in RHEL5/CentOS5 is 3.1.2 (+patches), but the Xen tools are 
3.0.3 based.

-- Pasi


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