[openstack-dev] RFC: Potential to increase min required libvirt version to 0.9.8 ?

Ralf Haferkamp rhafer at suse.de
Wed Nov 20 15:02:02 UTC 2013


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:33:22PM +1300, Robert Collins wrote:
> On 20 November 2013 08:02, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Currently the Nova libvirt driver is declaring that it wants a minimum
> > of libvirt 0.9.6.
> ...
> > If there are other distros I've missed which expect to support deployment
> > of Icehouse please add them to this list. Hopefully there won't be any
> > with libvirt software older than Ubuntu 12.04 LTS....
> >
> >
> > The reason I'm asking this now, is that we're working to make the libvirt
> > python module a separate tar.gz that can build with multiple libvirt
> > versions, and I need to decide how ancient a libvirt we should support
> > for it.
> 
> Fantastic!!!
> 
> The Ubuntu cloud archive
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/CloudArchive is how OpenStack is
> delivered by Canonical for Ubuntu LTS users. So I think you can go
> with e.g. 0.9.11 or even 0.9.12 depending on what the Suse folk say.
I think 0.9.11 is fine for us. I am not worried too much about 0.9.12 either
since openSUSE 12.2 (which has 0.9.11) will reach its EOL soon. I also added
SLES to the table on:
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LibvirtDistroSupportMatrix

-- 
regards,
    Ralf



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