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On 11/22/2013 01:02 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:02:02PM +0100, Ralf Haferkamp wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Thanks, it looks like from the libvirt side, we are only going to be
> able to provide a standalone  libvirt-python on PyPI that works
> back to version 0.9.11.  Prior to 0.9.11 libvirt did not install its
> API description, which is a pre-requisite for the python bindings
> to build.
> 
> Fortunately 0.9.11 lines up with all the distros we've got listed
> so far.

I, for one, welcome our new libvirt overlords.