HEADS UP: Imported Xen 4.7 and blkback changes

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2016, Roger Pau Monné wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:18:09PM +0000, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > First of all, this message is only relevant to those that use FreeBSD as 
> > > Dom0 (host), not as a DomU (guest), so don't panic.
> > > 
> > > I've imported the latest Xen version (4.7-rc4) into the ports tree, it's 
> > > still not the final version, but it's quite close, so we better start 
> > > testing it to make sure it works fine with FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Thank you Roger, this is excellent. Are xen-tools-devel 4.5 now?
> > Looks confusing.
> > 
> > I have also tried building xen-tools (4.7) without python
> > and qemu configure reported this.
> 
> Python is required, you cannot get rid of it.

Strange, seems USES= python in the port's Makefile didn't work for me and
continued happily after.

Marcin