[Openstack-operators] [nova] Can we bump MIN_LIBVIRT_VERSION to 1.2.2 in Liberty?

Jesse Keating jlk at bluebox.net
Thu May 14 23:10:32 UTC 2015


I'm +1 on this. If people want to run Liberty on an old platform, the onus
is on them to figure out how to install the relevant deps on that platform.


- jlk

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Matt Riedemann <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 5/14/2015 3:35 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 5/14/2015 2:59 PM, Kris G. Lindgren wrote:
>>
>>> How would this impact someone running juno nova-compute on rhel 6 boxes?
>>> Or installing the python2.7 from SCL and running kilo+ code on rhel6?
>>>
>>> For [3] it couldn't we get the exact same information from /proc/cpuinfo?
>>> ____________________________________________
>>>
>>> Kris Lindgren
>>> Senior Linux Systems Engineer
>>> GoDaddy, LLC.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/14/15, 1:23 PM, "Matt Riedemann" <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  The minimum required version of libvirt in the driver is 0.9.11 still
>>>> [1].  We've been gating against 1.2.2 in Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 since Juno.
>>>>
>>>> The libvirt distro support matrix is here: [2]
>>>>
>>>> Can we safely assume the people aren't going to be running Libvirt
>>>> compute nodes on RHEL < 7.1 or Ubuntu Precise?
>>>>
>>>> Regarding RHEL, I think this is a safe bet because in Kilo nova dropped
>>>> python 2.6 support and RHEL > 6 doesn't have py26 so you'd be in trouble
>>>> running kilo+ nova on RHEL 6.x anyway.
>>>>
>>>> There are some workarounds in the code [3] I'd like to see removed by
>>>> bumping the minimum required version.
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>>
>>>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/virt/libvirt/driver
>>>>
>>>> .py?id=2015.1.0#n335
>>>> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LibvirtDistroSupportMatrix
>>>> [3]
>>>>
>>>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/virt/libvirt/host.p
>>>>
>>>> y?id=2015.1.0#n754
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Matt Riedemann
>>>>
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>>>
>> This would be Liberty, so when you upgrade nova-compute to Liberty you'd
>> also need to upgrade the host OS to something that supports libvirt >=
>> 1.2.2.
>>
>>
> Here is the patch to see what this would look like:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/183220/
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>
> Matt Riedemann
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