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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Riedemann" <mriedemos at gmail.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>,
> openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 6:29:22 PM
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [nova] Next minimum libvirt version
> 
> Since danpb hasn't been around I've sort of forgotten about this, but we
> should talk about bumping the minimum required libvirt version in nova.
> 
> Currently it's 1.2.1 and the next was set to 1.2.9.
> 
> On master we're gating on ubuntu 14.04 which has libvirt 1.3.1 (14.04
> had 1.2.2).
> 
> If we move to require 1.2.9 that effectively kills 14.04 support for
> devstack + libvirt on master, which is probably OK.

This would also kill off RHEL/CentOS 7.1 support but that would also seem to be OK at this point.

> There is also the distro support wiki [1] which hasn't been updated in
> awhile.

I've added the details I have for Fedora 25 and RHEL/CentOS 7.3, TL;DR:

Fedora 25:
Libvirt 2.2.0
Qemu 2.7.1
Libguestfs 1.34.3

RHEL 7.3:
Libvirt 2.0.0
Qemu 2.6.0
Libguestfs 1.32.7
 

> I'm wondering if 1.2.9 is a safe move for the next required minimum
> version and if so, does anyone have ideas on the next required version
> after that?
> 
> I'm hoping some of the Red Hat people can chime in here.

I just play someone intelligent on TV so adding Sahid and Vladik who might be better placed to comment in Dan's absence.

Thanks,

Steve

-- 
Steve Gordon,
Principal Product Manager,
Red Hat OpenStack Platform