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This hostUpdates feature will come as a separate plugin which will enumerate all the hosts managed by CloudStack to provide the udpates. This will use this PluggableService to add the HostUpdate feature APIs into CloudStack* and the *HostUpdatesManager will be responsible for thread scheduling. This functionality will be contained in an independent jar file.

Search for Host Updates

At regular intervalsThe initial time to start thread after the management server comes up is set to 10 minutes and after regular intervals(default is one week), update.check.interval, management server will look for all available updates for a Hypervisior. For Xenserver, it'll downloads the latest update information from http://updates.xensource.com/XenServer/updates.xml. The location is configurable through xen.update.url in global configuration.

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