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On 8/25/2015 9:14 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> Support to change the admin password on an instance via the libvirt
> driver landed in liberty [1] but the hypervisor support matrix wasn't
> updated [2].  There is a version restriction in the driver that it won't
> work unless you're using at least libvirt 1.2.16.
>
> We should be able to at least update the hypervisor support matrix that
> this is supported for libvirt with the version restriction.  markus_z
> actually pointed that out in the review of the change to add the support
> but it was ignored.
>
> The other thing I was wondering about was testing.  The check/gate queue
> jobs with ubuntu 14.04 only have libvirt 1.2.2.
>
> There is the fedora 21 job that runs on the experimental queue and I've
> traditionally considered this a place to test out libvirt driver
> features that need something newer than 1.2.2, but that only goes up to
> libvirt 1.2.9.3 [3].
>
> It looks like you have to get up to fedora 23 to be able to test this
> set-admin-password function [4].  In fact it looks like the only major
> distro out there right now that supports this new enough version of
> libvirt is fc23 [5].
>
> Does anyone fancy getting a f23 job setup in the experimental queue for
> nova?  It would be nice to actually be able to test the bleeding edge
> features that we put into the driver code.
>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/185910/
> [2]
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/support-matrix.html#operation_set_admin_password
>
> [3]
> http://logs.openstack.org/28/215328/3/check/gate-tempest-dsvm-f21/8e9eae5/logs/rpm-qa.txt.gz
>
> [4] http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libvirt
> [5] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LibvirtDistroSupportMatrix
>

I poked a bit today on a f23 job and there are people working on getting 
an f22 node available for testing in infra.  f23 isn't available until 
2015/10/27 so I guess I'm a bit premature on expecting to get a 
gate-tempest-dsvm-f23 job setup.

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann