Ok, its been quite a while since I’ve posted a general post to my site here. So in order for it to not be taken over by my Xen announcements, here is what is on my YouTube playlist at the moment.

1) PSY - Gangnam Style. This is the ONLY Korean pop singer to EVER make #1 on the British charts.

2) Lonely Island feat Michael Bolton - Jack Sparrow. This one makes me chuckle probably harder than I should.

I won’t bore you with others, these are good enough ;)

Just a small update to the kernel to allow xtables to be built against it to bring it inline with stock kernels.

Its syncing to the repos at the moment, should be available across the board soon.

I’ve just pushed out new Xen 4.2.0 RPMs to the repo. They should start syncing in the near future.

I recommend that you shut down all running DomUs before upgrading the Xen packages as due to the toolset changes, you may not be able to do it AFTER upgrading.

Release Announcement - Release Notes - Feature List

I’ve had a few emails asking about Xen 4.2.0. I’ve got a test version running and am monitoring it over the next few days. If it proves ok, I’ll push it to the repo.

In the meantime, yesterday I pushed a new kernel-xen package (3.5.4-2) which has the option for HPSA raid adapters enabled. This was an oversight originally and should mean that the kernel will boot properly on HP servers with this type of RAID card.

Changes in this version:

• Fri Sep 07 2012 Steven Haigh <netwiz @crc.id.au> - 4.1.3-2
• XSA12 (CVE-2012-3494) - hypercall set_debugreg vulnerability
• XSA13 (CVE-2012-3495) - hypercall physdev_get_free_pirq vulnerability
• XSA14 (CVE-2012-3496) - XENMEM_populate_physmap DoS vulnerability
• XSA16 (CVE-2012-3498) - PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq index vulnerability
• XSA17 (CVE-2012-3515) - Qemu VT100 emulation vulnerability
• XSA19 guest administrator can access qemu monitor console

Everyone should update to these packages ASAP.