On next minimum libvirt / QEMU versions for "V" release

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Tue Nov 19 09:40:48 UTC 2019


On 18/11/2019 19.11, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> The last time we incremented versions for libvirt and QEMU was during
> the "Stein" release[1].  For "Train" we didn't do any.  Although we
> advertized NEXT_MIN_{LIBVIRT,QEMU} versions for "Train" release to be
> libvirt 4.0.0 and QEMU 2.11.0, but we actually didn't bump; we'll do
> that for "Ussuri".
> 
> But before we bump the versions for "Ussuri", we need to pick NEXT_MIN
> versions for the "V" release.  Based on the updated the
> DistroSupportMatrix page[2], it looks we can pick the next libvirt and
> QEMU versions for "V" release to the following:
> 
>     libvirt: 5.0.0 [GAed on: 15-Jan-2019]
>     QEMU:    4.0.0 [GAed on: 24-Apr-2019]
> 
> I have the initial patch here[3] for comments.
> 
> Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu[4], CentOS, RHEL currently already ship the above
> versions (actually, higher than those).  And it is reasonable to assume
> -- but let's confirm below -- that openSUSE, SLES, and Oracle Linux
> would also have the above versions available by "V" release time.
> 
> Action Items for Linux Distros
> ------------------------------
> 
> (a) Oracle Linux: Please update your libvirt/QEMU versions for Oracle
>     Linux 8?
> 
>     I couldn't find anything related to libvirt/QEMU here:
>     https://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-8.html.  (My educated guess is:
>     the versions roughly match what's in CentOS/RHEL.)
> 
> (b) openSUSE and SLES: Same request as above.
> 
>     Andreas Jaegaer said on #openstack-infra that the proposed versions
>     for 'V' release should be fine for SLES.  (And by extension open
>     SUSE, I assume.)

Yes, those look fine for SLES and openSUSE,

Andreas

>                     - - -
> 
> Assuming Oracle Linux and SLES confirm, please let us know if there are
> any objections if we pick NEXT_MIN_* versions for the OpenStack "V"
> release to be libvirt: 5.0.0 and QEMU: 4.0.0.  
> 
> Comments / alternative proposals welcome :-)
> 
> 
> [1] https://opendev.org/openstack/nova/commit/489b5f762e -- Pick next
>     minimum libvirt / QEMU versions for "T" release, 2018-09-25)
> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LibvirtDistroSupportMatrix
> [3] https://review.opendev.org/694821 -- [RFC] Pick NEXT_MIN
>     libvirt/QEMU versions for "V" release
> [4] For Ubuntu, I updated the versions based on what is in the Cloud
>     Archive repo for "Bionic" (the LTS) release:
>     http://reqorts.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/ubuntu-server/cloud-archive/train_versions.html
> 
> 


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