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

Tim Bell Tim.Bell at cern.ch
Fri May 15 06:25:48 UTC 2015


What are the benefits of upping the minimum libvirt ?

We've got 3,200 hypervisors still running  v6 with a plan to gradually migrate to 7 but this does take some time. We'll see with RDO this week as to how/if we can get something going with SCL on v6.

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris G. Lindgren [mailto:klindgren at godaddy.com]
> Sent: 14 May 2015 21:59
> To: Matt Riedemann; openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] [nova] Can we bump
> MIN_LIBVIRT_VERSION to 1.2.2 in Liberty?
> 
> 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/dri
> >ver
> >.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/hos
> >t.p
> >y?id=2015.1.0#n754
> >
> >--
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Matt Riedemann
> >
> >
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