On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 18:03 -0500, Matt Riedemann wrote:

On 9/12/2019 11:11 AM, James Benson wrote:

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I am currently working on trying to deploy Xen OpenStack. Currently I have been trying to get it working on Rocky with Xen6.0 and will code fix for Stein/Train as well if possible. Trying to get a working solution with Rocky then will patch up the line. I have reached out to the last person who submitted a bug fix in Xen (with no response), but I am actively trying to get this working. Unfortunately it is a one-man job, so it is taking a lot of time. Currently facing issues with Nova and Neutron.

Thanks for letting us know you're trying to get nova working with the xenapi driver James. The last time there was sustained effort on that driver was in Rocky so I would not be surprised if there are issues in Stein or Train. If you have fixes please contribute them upstream. However, I think we should still move forward with deprecation of the driver as a clear indication of the lack of maintainers on the driver. If that changes in the Ussuri release we have the option to undeprecate but I think it's important to clearly signal the state of maintenance for parts of nova so people don't start using them just to find out later they'll be in a bad state (which you might have already found out).

i dont think this applies to libvirt + xen but i think the direct to xen server implmenation requires a specific version of like python 2.6 or an early version of 2.7 to work or put another it wont work with python 3. that it might have changed but i remember trying to help somomn debug the xenserver driver in kolla aboud a year ago and i dont think that any work has been done to make it python 3 compatiable.

so if we are to keep it in Ussuri some heavy lifting would be needed to make it run python 3 only.